Carotenoid-loaded nanocarriers: A comprehensive review

A Rehman, Q Tong, SM Jafari, E Assadpour… - Advances in colloid and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Carotenoids retain plenty of health benefits and attracting much attention recently, but they
have less resistance to processing stresses, easily oxidized and chemically unstable …

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 …

Cubosomes: remarkable drug delivery potential

Z Karami, M Hamidi - Drug discovery today, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Cubosomes are among the recent nanostructures attracting attention for drug
delivery.•Biocompatibility and simplicity are the most important advantages of …

Affimer Tagged Cubosomes: Targeting of Carcinoembryonic Antigen Expressing Colorectal Cancer Cells Using In Vitro and In Vivo Models

A Pramanik, Z Xu, SH Shamsuddin… - … applied materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanomedicines, while having been approved for cancer therapy, present many challenges
such as low stability, rapid clearance, and nonspecificity leading to off-target toxicity …

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] Recent advances in drug delivery applications of cubosomes, hexosomes, and solid lipid nanoparticles

A Yaghmur, H Mu - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Advances in drug delivery and medical imaging using colloidal lyotropic liquid crystalline dispersions

X Mulet, BJ Boyd, CJ Drummond - Journal of colloid and interface science, 2013 - Elsevier
The overarching goal of this feature article is to review the recent developments in the field
of drug delivery specifically involving colloidal lyotropic liquid crystalline dispersions. The …

Preparation, characterization, and antimicrobial activity of cubosome encapsulated metal nanocrystals

TG Meikle, BP Dyett, JB Strachan, J White… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Herein, we demonstrate a method for the functionalization of cubic phase lipid nanoparticles
(cubosomes) with a series of magnetite (Fe3O4), copper oxide (Cu2O), and silver (Ag) …

Cubic and hexagonal liquid crystals as drug delivery systems

Y Chen, P Ma, S Gui - BioMed research international, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Lipids have been widely used as main constituents in various drug delivery systems, such
as liposomes, solid lipid nanoparticles, nanostructured lipid carriers, and lipid‐based …

Factors affecting the structure of lyotropic liquid crystals and the correlation between structure and drug diffusion

Y Huang, S Gui - RSC advances, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs) formed by the self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules in a
solvent (usually water) have attracted increasingly greater attention in the last few decades …