Cationic compounds are promising candidates for development of antimicrobial agents.
Positive charges attached to surfaces, particles, polymers, peptides or bilayers have been …

Mimicking nature is a powerful approach for developing novel lipid-based devices for drug
and vaccine delivery. In this review, biomimetic assemblies based on natural or synthetic …

Objectives: To determine the mechanism of antimicrobial action for cationic lipid
dioctadecyldimethylammonium bromide (DODAB) and hexadecyltrimethylammonium …

A new boron-containing chitosan-based compound HBS was synthesized and used in
combination with ammonium polyphosphate (APP) as an efficient flame retardant with good …

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of chitosan (CH), a
biocompatible polysaccharide, on the flexural strength of glass ionomer restoratives (GIR) …

Hybrid nanoparticles from cationic lipid and polymers were prepared and characterized
regarding physical properties and antimicrobial activity. Carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) and …

Background Particulate systems are well known to be able to deliver drugs with high
efficiency and fewer adverse side effects, possibly by endocytosis of the drug carriers. On …

Water‐soluble polymers have attracted much interest due to their potential applications in
environmental protection engineering to remove harmful pollutants and in biomedicine in …

Since their introduction as bilayer-forming synthetic compounds in the eighties,
dioctadecyldimethylammonium (DODA) and dihexadecylphosphate (DHP) salts have found …

The interaction between giant bacteriophage DNA and cationic biomimetic particles was
characterized from sizing by dynamic light-scattering, ζ-potential analysis, turbidimetry …