Liquid crystal materials for biomedical applications

Z Zhang, X Yang, Y Zhao, F Ye, L Shang - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid crystal is a state of matter being intermediate between solid and liquid. Liquid crystal
materials exhibit both orientational order and fluidity. While liquid crystals have long been …

Mathematical modeling of release kinetics from supramolecular drug delivery systems

C Mircioiu, V Voicu, V Anuta, A Tudose, C Celia… - Pharmaceutics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Embedding of active substances in supramolecular systems has as the main goal to ensure
the controlled release of the active ingredients. Whatever the final architecture or entrapment …

Cubosomes as an emerging platform for drug delivery: A review of the state of the art

MAS Abourehab, MJ Ansari, A Singh… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Lipid-based drug-delivery nanoparticles, including non-lamellar-type, mesophasic
nanostructured materials of lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs), have been a topic of interest for …

Non-lamellar lyotropic liquid crystalline lipid nanoparticles for the next generation of nanomedicine

J Zhai, C Fong, N Tran, CJ Drummond - ACS nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
Nonlamellar lyotropic liquid crystalline (LLC) lipid nanomaterials have emerged as a
promising class of advanced materials for the next generation of nanomedicine, comprising …

Properties and application of nanostructure in liquid crystals

GF Smaisim, KJ Mohammed, SK Hadrawi, H Koten… - BioNanoScience, 2023 - Springer
Liquid crystal materials are a suitable environment for the synthesis of nanostructures of
uniform size and shape due to their order and yet mobility at the molecular level. Dense …

[HTML][HTML] Antimicrobial peptides–unleashing their therapeutic potential using nanotechnology

S Gera, E Kankuri, K Kogermann - Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2022 - Elsevier
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are potent, mostly cationic, and amphiphilic broad-spectrum
host defense antimicrobials that are produced by all organisms ranging from prokaryotes to …

Cubosomes in drug delivery—a comprehensive review on its structural components, preparation techniques and therapeutic applications

D Sivadasan, MH Sultan, SS Alqahtani, S Javed - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cubosomes are lipid vesicles that are comparable to vesicular systems like liposomes.
Cubosomes are created with certain amphiphilic lipids in the presence of a suitable …

Lipid based nanocarriers: a translational perspective

DK Mishra, R Shandilya, PK Mishra - … : Nanotechnology, Biology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the recent couple of decades, pharmaceutical field has embarked most phenomenal
noteworthy achievements in the field of medications as well as drug delivery. The rise of …

Nanotechnology and its applications in the food sector

N Sozer, JL Kokini - Trends in biotechnology, 2009 - cell.com
Nanoscience and nanotechnology are new frontiers of this century. Their applications to the
agriculture and food sector are relatively recent compared with their use in drug delivery and …

Lyotropic liquid crystal systems in drug delivery

C Guo, J Wang, F Cao, RJ Lee, G Zhai - Drug discovery today, 2010 - Elsevier
Lyotropic liquid crystal systems, such as reversed bicontinuous cubic and hexagonal
mesophases, are attracting more and more attention because of their unique microstructures …