Understanding nanoparticle cellular entry: a physicochemical perspective

CM Beddoes, CP Case, WH Briscoe - Advances in colloid and interface …, 2015 - Elsevier
Understanding interactions between nanoparticles (NPs) with biological matter, particularly
cells, is becoming increasingly important due to their growing application in medicine and …

Nanoencapsulation of carotenoids within lipid-based nanocarriers

H Rostamabadi, SR Falsafi, SM Jafari - Journal of controlled release, 2019 - Elsevier
Carotenoids, as promising functional components in human diet, are gaining immense
importance todays. Apart from their pivotal importance in photosynthetic organisms or as …

Large-area graphene-based nanofiltration membranes by shear alignment of discotic nematic liquid crystals of graphene oxide

A Akbari, P Sheath, ST Martin, DB Shinde… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Graphene-based membranes demonstrating ultrafast water transport, precise molecular
sieving of gas and solvated molecules shows great promise as novel separation platforms; …

Scalable one‐step wet‐spinning of graphene fibers and yarns from liquid crystalline dispersions of graphene oxide: towards multifunctional textiles

R Jalili, SH Aboutalebi, D Esrafilzadeh… - Advanced functional …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Key points in the formation of liquid crystalline (LC) dispersions of graphene oxide (GO) and
their processability via wet‐spinning to produce long lengths of micrometer‐dimensional …

Cubosomes in drug delivery—a comprehensive review on its structural components, preparation techniques and therapeutic applications

D Sivadasan, MH Sultan, SS Alqahtani, S Javed - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cubosomes are lipid vesicles that are comparable to vesicular systems like liposomes.
Cubosomes are created with certain amphiphilic lipids in the presence of a suitable …

Graphene oxide dispersions: tuning rheology to enable fabrication

S Naficy, R Jalili, SH Aboutalebi, RA Gorkin III… - Materials …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Here, we show that graphene oxide (GO) dispersions exhibit unique viscoelastic properties,
making them a new class of soft materials. The fundamental insights accrued here provide …

Lyotropic liquid crystal systems in drug delivery

C Guo, J Wang, F Cao, RJ Lee, G Zhai - Drug discovery today, 2010 - Elsevier
Lyotropic liquid crystal systems, such as reversed bicontinuous cubic and hexagonal
mesophases, are attracting more and more attention because of their unique microstructures …

Structure, function, and self-assembly of single network gyroid (I4132) photonic crystals in butterfly wing scales

V Saranathan, CO Osuji, SGJ Mochrie… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Complex three-dimensional biophotonic nanostructures produce the vivid structural colors of
many butterfly wing scales, but their exact nanoscale organization is uncertain. We used …

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 …

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 …