There are several requirements for the safe and effective delivery of therapeutic agents for
human use. Direct injection of drugs may cause side effects due to their permeation to other …

Studies on the adsorption of oppositely charged colloidal particles ultimately resulted in
multilayered polyelectrolyte self-assembly. The inception of layer-by-layer constructed …

Recent advances in medicine and biotechnology have prompted the need to develop
nanoengineered delivery systems that can encapsulate a wide variety of novel therapeutics …

Natural polyphenols with previously demonstrated anticancer potential, epigallocatechin
gallate (EGCG), tannic acid, curcumin, and theaflavin, were encased into gelatin-based 200 …

The introduction of electrostatic layer-by-layer (LbL) self-assembly has shown broad
biomedical applications in thin film coating, micropatterning, nanobioreactors, artificial cells …

A novel kind of rattle‐type hollow magnetic mesoporous sphere (HMMS) with Fe3O4
particles encapsulated in the cores of mesoporous silica microspheres has been …

Marine organisms are constituted by materials with a vast range of properties and
characteristics that may justify their potential application within the biomedical field …

Recent developments in the field of self-assembly of polyelectrolyte multilayers are
presented and discussed. Fundamental studies of multilayers on planar or colloidal supports …

Soft assemblies obtained following the Layer-by-Layer (LbL) approach are accounted
among the most interesting systems for designing biomaterials and drug delivery platforms …

Layer-by-layer self-assembly of two polysaccharides, hyaluronan (HA) and chitosan (CH),
was employed to engineer bioactive coatings for endovascular stents. A polyethyleneimine …