Aspirin on Ni-Ti-LDHs Nanosheets: Load and Sustained-release

Aspirin/layered double hydroxides composite (A-LDHs) and aspirin/layered double hydroxide-nanosheets composite (A-LDHs-NS) were prepared by intercalation and exfoliation-recombination, respectively. Their morphology, drug loading property and drug loading mode of the composites were characterized by XRD, SEM, TG-DTG, and FT-IR. The releasing performances of aspirin from A-LDHs and A-LDHs-NS in the phosphate buffer solutions with different pH conditions were investigated. The results show that the typical lamellar structures are hold in as-prepared LDHs and LDHs-NS. The larger specific surface area (187 m(2).g(-1)) of LDHs-NS, the more aspirins are loaded on its surface, among which the max drug loading is 1.178 mmol. g(-1). Its releasing process lasts for more than 1440 min, much longer than 20 min of the control materials, showing excellent sustained-releasing performance. This performance may because of the strong interaction between aspirin and LDHs-NS. Moreover, the sustained releasing performance is stronger at pH 7.4 than that at pH 4.8. All data from this study provides a reference for wider application of this kind of two-dimensional materials in biomedicine.