Design of highly stable echogenic microbubbles through controlled assembly of their hydrophobin shell

Lara Gazzera; Roberto Milani; Lisa Pirrie; Marc Schmutz; Christian Blanck; Giuseppe Resnati; Pierangelo Metrangolo; Marie Pierre Krafft

doi:10.1002/anie.201603706

Design of highly stable echogenic microbubbles through controlled assembly of their hydrophobin shell

Lara Gazzera, Roberto Milani, Lisa Pirrie, Marc Schmutz, Christian Blanck, Giuseppe Resnati, Pierangelo Metrangolo (Corresponding Author), Marie Pierre Krafft (Corresponding Author)

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Abstract

Dispersing hydrophobin HFBII under air saturated with perfluorohexane gas limits HFBII aggregation to nanometer-sizes. Critical basic findings include an unusual co-adsorption effect caused by the fluorocarbon gas, a strong acceleration of HFBII adsorption at the air/water interface, the incorporation of perfluorohexane into the interfacial film, the suppression of the fluid-to-solid 2D phase transition exhibited by HFBII monolayers under air, and a drastic change in film elasticity of both Gibbs and Langmuir films. As a result, perfluorohexane allows the formation of homogenous populations of spherical, narrowly dispersed, exceptionally stable, and echogenic microbubbles.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	10263-10267
Journal	Angewandte Chemie: International Edition
Volume	55
Issue number	35
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201603706
Publication status	Published - 2016
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

echogenicity
fluorocarbons
hydrophobin
interfacial films
ultrasound imaging

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Design of highly stable echogenic microbubbles through controlled assembly of their hydrophobin shell

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