Recent advancements in liposome technology

N Filipczak, J Pan, SSK Yalamarty… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2020 - Elsevier
The liposomes have continued to be well-recognized as an important nano-sized drug
delivery system with attractive properties, such a characteristic bilayer structure assembling …

Giant vesicles: preparations and applications

P Walde, K Cosentino, H Engel, P Stano - ChemBioChem, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
There is considerable interest in preparing cell‐sized giant unilamellar vesicles from natural
or nonnatural amphiphiles because a giant vesicle membrane resembles the self‐closed …

Microfluidic methods for forming liposomes

D van Swaay, A DeMello - Lab on a Chip, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Liposome structures have a wide range of applications in biology, biochemistry, and
biophysics. As a result, several methods for forming liposomes have been developed. This …

Monodisperse uni-and multicompartment liposomes

NN Deng, M Yelleswarapu… - Journal of the American …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Liposomes are self-assembled phospholipid vesicles with great potential in fields ranging
from targeted drug delivery to artificial cells. The formation of liposomes using microfluidic …

Mixed hybrid lipid/polymer vesicles as a novel membrane platform

M Schulz, WH Binder - Macromolecular rapid communications, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Vesicles can be individually fabricated from naturally occurring lipid or synthetic block
copolymer molecules via self‐assembly in aqueous solutions; the blending of both vesicle …

Preparation and mechanical characterisation of giant unilamellar vesicles by a microfluidic method

K Karamdad, RV Law, JM Seddon, NJ Brooks, O Ces - Lab on a Chip, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) have a wide range of applications in biology and synthetic
biology. As a result, new approaches for constructing GUVs using microfluidic techniques …

Membrane mechanical properties of synthetic asymmetric phospholipid vesicles

L Lu, WJ Doak, JW Schertzer, PR Chiarot - Soft Matter, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Synthetic lipid vesicles have served as important model systems to study cellular membrane
biology. Research has shown that the mechanical properties of bilayer membranes …

Continuous microfluidic fabrication of synthetic asymmetric vesicles

L Lu, JW Schertzer, PR Chiarot - Lab on a Chip, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
We report on a novel microfluidic strategy for the continuous fabrication of monodisperse
asymmetric vesicles with customized membrane composition, size, and luminal content. The …

Synthetic cell as a platform for understanding membrane-membrane interactions

B Sharma, H Moghimianavval, SW Hwang, AP Liu - Membranes, 2021 - mdpi.com
In the pursuit of understanding life, model membranes made of phospholipids were
envisaged decades ago as a platform for the bottom-up study of biological processes …

Deformation of giant unilamellar vesicles under osmotic stress

W Zong, Q Li, X Zhang, X Han - Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 2018 - Elsevier
Biological membrane plays an important role in maintaining an osmotic equilibrium between
the cytoplasm and the extracellular solution of cells. Here, the giant unilamellar vesicles …