Research Article

Preparation and Loading with Rifampicin of Sub-50 nm Poly(ethyl cyanoacrylate) Nanoparticles by Semicontinuous Heterophase Polymerization

Table 1

Average particle size and particle size polydispersity from the latexes obtained at the end of the polymerizations of ECA carried out at different monomer dosing rates.

Dosing rate (g/min)Population 1Population 2
(nm)PDI (nm)PDI

0.017042.31.4
0.011027.31.3
0.011030.41.2
0.005515.51.136.21.1

Original run (a) and its replicate (b).