Monoolein: a magic lipid?

CV Kulkarni, W Wachter, G Iglesias-Salto… - Physical Chemistry …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

[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 …

Modular synthesis of amphiphilic Janus glycodendrimers and their self-assembly into glycodendrimersomes and other complex architectures with bioactivity to …

V Percec, P Leowanawat, HJ Sun… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The modular synthesis of 7 libraries containing 51 self-assembling amphiphilic Janus
dendrimers with the monosaccharides d-mannose and d-galactose and the disaccharide d …

Understanding foods as soft materials

R Mezzenga, P Schurtenberger, A Burbidge… - Nature materials, 2005 - nature.com
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) for studying the morphology of colloidal drug delivery systems

J Kuntsche, JC Horst, H Bunjes - International journal of pharmaceutics, 2011 - Elsevier
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 …

Lyotropic liquid crystal engineering moving beyond binary compositional space–ordered nanostructured amphiphile self-assembly materials by design

L van't Hag, SL Gras, CE Conn… - Chemical society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Ordered amphiphile self-assembly materials with a tunable three-dimensional (3D)
nanostructure are of fundamental interest, and crucial for progressing several biological and …

pH-responsive lyotropic liquid crystals for controlled drug delivery

R Negrini, R Mezzenga - Langmuir, 2011 - ACS Publications
We present a food-grade lyotropic liquid crystal system, capable of responding to pH
variations with a reversible switch in both the structure and physical properties. The system …

Cubosomes and hexosomes as novel nanocarriers for bioactive compounds

C Tan, SF Hosseini, SM Jafari - Journal of Agricultural and Food …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cubosomes and hexosomes are nanostructured liquid crystalline particles, known as
biocompatible nanocarriers for drug delivery. In recent years, there has been good interest …

Self-assembled multicompartment liquid crystalline lipid carriers for protein, peptide, and nucleic acid drug delivery

A Angelova, B Angelov, R Mutafchieva… - Accounts of chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Lipids and lipopolymers self-assembled into biocompatible nano-and mesostructured
functional materials offer many potential applications in medicine and diagnostics. In this …

Characterization and potential applications of nanostructured aqueous dispersions

A Yaghmur, O Glatter - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2009 - Elsevier
The present article highlights recent advances and current status in the characterization and
the utilization of nanostructured aqueous dispersions in which the submicron-sized …