I'm trying to add stearic acid into my microspheres which is made by o/w solvent evaporation technique, can anyone help?

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Hey, is anyone an expert in making PLA microspheres? I need to add stearic acid into the microspheres for some purpose. However, the solubility of of stearic acid is really low, so it is really easy to precipitate during the evaporation step. Can anyone help? Thanks so much.

William C. Smith

It might be easier to change your microsphere preparation technique. Using a microfluidic chip system like the ones offered by Dolomite Microfluidics (http://www.dolomite-microfluidics.com/).

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