There are many examples of bioactive proteins and peptides that would benefit from oral
delivery through functional foods, supplements, or medical foods, including hormones …

Amphiphilic lipids aggregate in aqueous solution into a variety of structural arrangements.
Among the plethora of ordered structures that have been reported, many have also been …

Lyotropic liquid crystal systems, such as reversed bicontinuous cubic and hexagonal
mesophases, are attracting more and more attention because of their unique microstructures …

During the last few years, there has been an extraordinary increase in publications
describing the manifold applications of monoolein, one of the most important lipids in the …

The use of lipid nanocarriers for drug delivery applications is an active research area, and a
great interest has particularly been shown in the past two decades. Among different lipid …

The necessity for long-term treatments of chronic diseases has encouraged the
development of novel long-acting parenteral formulations intending to improve drug …

Foods make up some of the most complex examples of soft condensed matter (SCM) with
which we interact daily. Their complexity arises from several factors: the intricacy of …

Cryogenic transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM) has evolved into an indispensable
tool for the characterization of colloidal drug delivery systems. It can be applied to study the …

Oleogels may be defined as lipophilic liquid and solid mixtures, in which solid lipid materials
(oleogelators) with lower concentrations (< 10wt.%) can entrap bulk liquid oil by ways of the …

Ordered amphiphile self-assembly materials with a tunable three-dimensional (3D)
nanostructure are of fundamental interest, and crucial for progressing several biological and …