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 …

Monoolein: a magic lipid?

CV Kulkarni, W Wachter, G Iglesias-Salto… - Physical Chemistry …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
During the last few years, there has been an extraordinary increase in publications
describing the manifold applications of monoolein, one of the most important lipids in the …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in drug delivery applications of cubosomes, hexosomes, and solid lipid nanoparticles

A Yaghmur, H Mu - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2021 - Elsevier
The use of lipid nanocarriers for drug delivery applications is an active research area, and a
great interest has particularly been shown in the past two decades. Among different lipid …

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 …

Factors affecting the structure of lyotropic liquid crystals and the correlation between structure and drug diffusion

Y Huang, S Gui - RSC advances, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs) formed by the self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules in a
solvent (usually water) have attracted increasingly greater attention in the last few decades …

Cubic and hexagonal liquid crystals as drug delivery systems

Y Chen, P Ma, S Gui - BioMed research international, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Lipids have been widely used as main constituents in various drug delivery systems, such
as liposomes, solid lipid nanoparticles, nanostructured lipid carriers, and lipid‐based …

Self-assembled multicompartment liquid crystalline lipid carriers for protein, peptide, and nucleic acid drug delivery

A Angelova, B Angelov, R Mutafchieva… - Accounts of chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Lipids and lipopolymers self-assembled into biocompatible nano-and mesostructured
functional materials offer many potential applications in medicine and diagnostics. In this …

Characterization and potential applications of nanostructured aqueous dispersions

A Yaghmur, O Glatter - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2009 - Elsevier
The present article highlights recent advances and current status in the characterization and
the utilization of nanostructured aqueous dispersions in which the submicron-sized …

Controlling molecular transport and sustained drug release in lipid-based liquid crystalline mesophases

A Zabara, R Mezzenga - Journal of Controlled Release, 2014 - Elsevier
Lipid-based lyotropic liquid crystals, also referred to as reversed liquid crystalline
mesophases, such as bicontinuous cubic, hexagonal or micellar cubic phases, have …

Responsive self-assembled nanostructured lipid systems for drug delivery and diagnostics

WK Fong, R Negrini, JJ Vallooran, R Mezzenga… - Journal of colloid and …, 2016 - Elsevier
While stimuli-responsive polymers have received a huge amount of attention in the
literature, responsive lipid-based mesophase systems offer unique opportunities in …