Steroidal drug containing dodecyl sulphate monolayers: effect of counterion

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An number of potential drugs, including steroidal drugs are extremely water insoluble, limiting their commercialisation as medicines. Solubilisation of drug in surfactant micelles is a means of increasing the apparent aqueous solubility of a drug and ensuring exploitation as a medicine. Micelles formed by the anionic surfactant, sodium dodecyl sulphate, have been shown to be an excellent solubiliser of steroidal drug. Changing the counterion has been shown to influence solubilisation in a micelle with lithium increasing solubilisation and ammonium decreasing solubilisation. We aim to determine the effect of the counterion ion on the stiochiommetry and the nature of incorporation of steroidal drug into monolayers formed by different dodecyl sulphate surfactants, namely those containing either Li or NH4 counterion, using neutron reflectivity in combination with contrast variation.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.90587013
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/90587013
Provenance
Creator Professor Jayne Lawrence; Miss yanan shao; Dr Maxmilian Skoda; Dr Peixun Li; Mr Xing Chen; Dr Dave Barlow
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-02-16T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-02-19T09:00:00Z