Lipid nanotechnology

S Mashaghi, T Jadidi, G Koenderink… - International journal of …, 2013 - mdpi.com
Nanotechnology is a multidisciplinary field that covers a vast and diverse array of devices
and machines derived from engineering, physics, materials science, chemistry and biology …

[HTML][HTML] Rational design of liposomal drug delivery systems, a review: Combined experimental and computational studies of lipid membranes, liposomes and their …

A Bunker, A Magarkar, T Viitala - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2016 - Elsevier
Combined experimental and computational studies of lipid membranes and liposomes, with
the aim to attain mechanistic understanding, result in a synergy that makes possible the …

[HTML][HTML] Force field development for lipid membrane simulations

AP Lyubartsev, AL Rabinovich - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2016 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of computer power and wide availability of modelling software
computer simulations of realistic models of lipid membranes, including their interactions with …

Shape deformation, budding and division of giant vesicles and artificial cells: A review

Y Miele, G Holló, I Lagzi, F Rossi - Life, 2022 - mdpi.com
The understanding of the shape-change dynamics leading to the budding and division of
artificial cells has gained much attention in the past few decades due to an increased …

Structural characteristics and fusion pathways of onion-like multilayered polymersome formed by amphiphilic comb-like graft copolymers

HY Chang, YL Lin, YJ Sheng, HK Tsao - Macromolecules, 2013 - ACS Publications
The self-assembly behavior of amphiphilic comb-like graft copolymers bearing pH-
responsive hydrophilic side-chains on hydrophobic backbone in a selective solvent is …

A dissipative particle dynamics simulation study on phase diagrams for the self-assembly of amphiphilic hyperbranched multiarm copolymers in various solvents

H Tan, C Yu, Z Lu, Y Zhou, D Yan - Soft Matter, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-assembly of amphiphilic hyperbranched multiarm copolymers (HMCs) has shown great
potential for preparing all kinds of delicate supramolecular structures in all scales and …

Molecular mechanism of vesicle division induced by coupling between lipid geometry and membrane curvatures

N Urakami, T Jimbo, Y Sakuma, M Imai - Soft Matter, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
We investigated the effects of lipid geometry on vesicle division using coarse grained
molecular dynamics simulations. When the vesicle is composed of zero and negative …

Solvent-exposed lipid tail protrusions depend on lipid membrane composition and curvature

MA Tahir, RC Van Lehn, SH Choi… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2016 - Elsevier
The stochastic protrusion of hydrophobic lipid tails into solution, a subclass of hydrophobic
membrane defects, has recently been shown to be a critical step in a number of biological …

Polymersomes: Breaking the glass ceiling?

T Chidanguro, E Ghimire, CH Liu, YC Simon - Small, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Polymer vesicles, also known as polymersomes, have garnered a lot of interest even before
the first report of their fabrication in the mid‐1990s. These capsules have found applications …

Nanomaterial interactions with biomembranes: Bridging the gap between soft matter models and biological context

M Werner, T Auth, PA Beales, JB Fleury, F Höök… - …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Synthetic polymers, nanoparticles, and carbon-based materials have great potential in
applications including drug delivery, gene transfection, in vitro and in vivo imaging, and the …