Liposomes are essentially a subtype of nanoparticles comprising a hydrophobic tail and a
hydrophilic head constituting a phospholipid membrane. The spherical or multilayered …

Early cancer detection and perfect understanding of the disease are imperative toward
efficient treatments. It is straightforward that, for choosing a specific cancer treatment …

Pharmaceutical design has enabled important advances in the prevention, treatment, and
diagnosis of diseases. The use of nanotechnology to optimize the delivery of drugs and …

Direct delivery of proteins and peptides into living mammalian cells has been accomplished
using phospholipid liposomes as carrier particles. Such liposomes are usually taken up via …

Membrane fusion is a ubiquitous process in biology and is a prerequisite for many
intracellular delivery protocols relying on the use of liposomes as drug carriers. Here, we …

Giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) are presumably the current most popular biomimetic
membrane model. Preparation of GUVs in physiological conditions using the classical …

This contribution reviews the state of art on hybrid soft matter assemblies composed of
inorganic nanoparticles (NP) and lamellar or non-lamellar lipid bilayers. After a short outline …

Quantum dots (QDs) have attracted considerable attention as fluorescent probes for life
sciences. The advantages of using QDs in fluorescence-based studies include high …

Membrane fusion is a ubiquitous process associated with a multitude of biological events.
Although it has long been appreciated that membrane mechanics plays an important role in …

Understanding interactions between functional nanoparticles and lipid bilayers is important
to many emerging biomedical and bioanalytical applications. In this paper, we report …