Abstract
Stratagems of drug delivery are important for disease treatment and other biomedical areas. In this study, a novel stratagem is presented for versatile and controllable drug delivery by integrating photoresponsive drug delivery microspheres (PDDMs) into pyramid microneedle (MN) arrays. The PDDMs, containing black-phosphorus (BP) and poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) (pNIPAM), are generated by a flexible capillary microfluidic method. Benefiting from the high watercontentof the pNIPAM hydrogel, various bioactive substances can be loaded and maintain biological activity. Furthermore, due to the near-infrared (NIR) absorption and conversion capabilities of the contained BP, the PDDMs can increase temperature, shrink volume, and release their encapsulated bioactives under the trigger of biocompatible NIR. In addition, as the PDDMs are stuffed into the solid MN arrays of porous ethoxylated trimethylolpropane triacrylate (ETPTA), the composited PDDMs-MNs system has enough mechanical strength to penetrate into the skin and can deliver drugs underneath the skin uniformly. Based on the resultant PDDMs-MNs, it is demonstrated that insulin can be controllably released to adjust blood glucose levels of streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic mice. Thus, it is believed that the PDDMs-MNs can act as an excellent drugs delivery system and will find many practical values in clinical medicine.
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