This review highlights the relevant issues of spontaneous formation of vesicles. Both the
common characteristics and the differences between liposomes and vesicles are given. The …

Lipid bilayer model membranes that contain a single lipid species can undergo transitions
between ordered and disordered phases, and membranes that contain a mixture of lipid …

Vesicles consisting of a bilayer membrane of amphiphilic lipid molecules are remarkably
flexible surfaces that show an amazing variety of shapes of different symmetry and topology …

Understanding the structural and thermodynamic properties of surfaces, interfaces, and
membranes is important for both fundamental and practical reasons. Important applications …

More than a quarter of a century ago, Bangham et al. 1 showed that phospholipids
dispersed in water formed closed, multibilayer aggregates capable of separating an internal …

This volume provides a single-source of reviews for all the important colloidal drug delivery
systems, including nanoparticles, liposomes, niosomes, microemulsions and ointments …

Equilibrium unilamellar vesicles are stabilized by one of two distinct mechanisms depending
on the value of the bending constant. Helfrich undulations ensure that the interbilayer …

Important routes to lipid vesicles (liposomes) are detergent removal techniques, such as
dialysis or dilution. Although they are widely applied, there has been only limited …

In a lattice model of mixtures of idealized surfactant, oil, and water molecules, the
microseparation of hydrophobic components (oil and surfactant tails) from hydrophilic ones …

Provides comprehensive coverage of the most recent developments in the theory of non-
Archimedean pseudo-differential equations and its application to stochastics and …