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ArticleACS nano2025

Design Principles for Engineering Ionic Liquid-Gold Nanoparticles for Therapeutic Delivery to the Brain.

Talia A Shmool, Laura K Martin, Andreas Jirkas, Sophie V Morse, Claudia Contini, Yuval Elani, Jason P Hallett

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Article in ACS nano, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Talia A ShmoolDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-0415-3050
Laura K MartinDepartment of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PJ, U.K.
Andreas JirkasDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, U.K.
Sophie V MorseDepartment of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, U.K.
Claudia ContiniDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, U.K.
Yuval ElaniDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-9603-2490
Jason P HallettDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, U.K.ORCID 0000-0003-3431-2371

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ionic liquid (IL) nanotechnology holds significant promise for designing nanoscale materials with tunable viscosity, polarity, and thermal stability for advanced therapeutic applications. However, the field currently lacks comprehensive guidelines for integrating ILs into complex therapeutic formulations. Herein, we propose the key design considerations for engineering immunoglobulin G (IgG) conjugated to gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) in the presence of choline-based ILs. By judicious IL cation and anion selection, we fine-tune the supramolecular assemblies and leverage the unique physicochemical properties of ILs to impart AuNPs with advantageous characteristics including enhanced structural, thermal, and thermodynamic stabilities, highly tunable morphologies, and markedly reduced aggregation propensities. Through systematic circular dichroism measurements, the thermodynamic parameters of the complex formulations were determined, offering insight into the IgG conformational changes and design parameters for systems of enhanced IgG conjugation to AuNP surfaces. In demonstrating the power of our design approach, the complex formulation of IgG-choline chloride-AuNPs, also including trehalose, histidine, and arginine, was delivered via focused ultrasound and microbubbles across the blood-brain barrier and showed a 7.6-fold increase in delivery

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BrainDrug Delivery SystemsGoldIonic LiquidsMetal NanoparticlesAnimalsBlood-Brain BarrierHumansImmunoglobulin GMiceGoldImmunoglobulin GIonic Liquidsamino acidsblood−brain barrierfocused ultrasoundgold nanoparticlesionic liquidstherapeutic delivery

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PMID40605559
PMCPMC12269357

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