Properties and application of nanostructure in liquid crystals

GF Smaisim, KJ Mohammed, SK Hadrawi, H Koten… - BioNanoScience, 2023 - Springer
Liquid crystal materials are a suitable environment for the synthesis of nanostructures of
uniform size and shape due to their order and yet mobility at the molecular level. Dense …

Lipid-based nanocarriers for oral peptide delivery

Z Niu, I Conejos-Sánchez, BT Griffin… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2016 - Elsevier
This article is aimed to overview the lipid-based nanostructures designed so far for the oral
administration of peptides and proteins, and to analyze the influence of their composition …

Hydrogel‐forming microneedle arrays for enhanced transdermal drug delivery

RF Donnelly, TRR Singh, MJ Garland… - Advanced functional …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Unique microneedle arrays prepared from crosslinked polymers, which contain no drug
themselves, are described. They rapidly take up skin interstitial fluid upon skin insertion to …

Cubic phase gels as drug delivery systems

JC Shah, Y Sadhale, DM Chilukuri - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2001 - Elsevier
Lipids have been used extensively for drug delivery in various forms such as liposomes, and
solid-matrices. The focus of this review is evaluation of liquid crystalline cubic phases …

Surfactant self-assembly objects as novel drug delivery vehicles

CJ Drummond, C Fong - Current opinion in colloid & interface science, 1999 - Elsevier
The past decade has been witness to a new impetus in surfactant self-assembly objects as
agents for drug delivery that are an alternative to micellar, lamellar (liposome, niosome and …

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 …

Advances in lyotropic liquid crystal systems for skin drug delivery

AVP Silvestrini, AL Caron, J Viegas… - Expert Opinion on …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Introduction Lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs) are organized mesophases with
intermediate properties between liquids and solids. The LLC and its liquid crystalline …

[HTML][HTML] In vitro and in vivo evaluation of cubosomes containing 5-fluorouracil for liver targeting

M Nasr, MK Ghorab, A Abdelazem - Acta pharmaceutica sinica B, 2015 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to prepare cubosomal nanoparticles containing a hydrophilic
anticancer drug 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) for liver targeting. Cubosomal dispersions were …

Stimuli responsive liquid crystals provide 'on-demand'drug delivery in vitro and in vivo

WK Fong, T Hanley, BJ Boyd - Journal of Controlled Release, 2009 - Elsevier
Lipid-based liquid crystalline materials have been proposed as controlled drug delivery
systems. Differences in liquid crystal nanostructure have previously been shown to change …

Glycerol monooleate liquid crystalline phases used in drug delivery systems

S Milak, A Zimmer - International journal of pharmaceutics, 2015 - Elsevier
During the last few decades, both scientific and applied research communities have shown
increased attention to self-assembled lyotropic liquid crystalline phases of polar lipids, due …