In recent years, polymeric micelles have been extensively utilized in pre-clinical studies for
delivering poorly soluble chemotherapeutic agents in cancer. Polymeric micelles are formed …

Advances in nanotechnology have favored the development of novel colloidal formulations
able to modulate the pharmacological and biopharmaceutical properties of drugs. The …

Starch is an excellent alternative to produce packaging materials, however, due to its high
hydrophilicity, it is necessary to mix it with other polymers. Chitosan (CTS) is a polymer …

Pluronics are amphiphilic triblock copolymers composed of two hydrophilic poly (ethylene
oxide)(PEO) chains linked via a central hydrophobic polypropylene oxide (PPO). Owing to …

Soft materials have been developed very rapidly in the biomedical field over the past 10
years because of advances in medical devices, cell therapy, and 3D printing for precision …

Systemic chemotherapy has lost its position to treat cancer over the past years mainly due to
drug resistance, side effects, and limited survival ratio. Among a plethora of local drug …

Aggregation behavior of mixed micellar solutions and microemulsions based on cationic
carbamate-bearing surfactants with hexadecyl hydrophobic group and nonionic surfactants …

The current study was designed to provide a preliminary physico-chemical characterization
of zein nanosystems prepared with various Brij surfactants (for the first time to the best of our …

Carborane is a carbon-boron molecular cluster that can be viewed as a 3D analog of
benzene. It features special physical and chemical properties, and thus has the potential to …

Glyceryl monooleate (GMO) is one of the most popular amphiphilic lipids, which, in the
presence of different amounts of water and a proper amount of stabilizer, can promote the …