Background Designing delivery systems (or called encapsulation systems) for functional
ingredients recently has received growing interest in the food industry, which aims to …

Dissolvable transdermal microneedles (μND) are promising micro-devices used to transport
a wide selection of active compounds into the skin. To provide an effective therapeutic …

Mucus is a viscoelastic biological hydrogel that protects the epithelial surface from
penetration by most nanoparticles, which limits the efficiency of oral drug delivery. Pursuing …

Nanocarriers have become an effective strategy to overcome epithelial absorption barriers.
During the absorption process, the endocytosis mechanisms, cell internalization pathways …

Food protein-derived multicomponent peptides (FPDMPs) are a natural blend of numerous
peptides with various bioactivities and multiple active sites that can assume several …

To improve the physicochemical stability of hydrophobic flavonoids, a series of protein-
based nanomicelles have been developed in recent years. However, the quinoa protein …

Incorporation of hydrophobic and poorly soluble nutraceuticals into food formulations is
among the great challenges in food science and pharmaceutical fields. One effective …

Protein nanotubes (PNTs) as state‐of‐the‐art nanocarriers are promising for various
potential applications both in the food and pharmaceutical industries. Derived from edible …

Different fruit and vegetable juices were first used to encapsulate curcumin to improve its
solubility, stability, and bioaccessibility, which is expected to enable designing of polyphenol …

Self-assembling nanoparticle made from soy protein hydrolysates has proved to be a
promising delivery system due to its excellent biocompatibility and synthetic feasibility. In this …