Phase change materials (PCMs) allow the storage of large amounts of latent heat during
phase transition. They have the potential to both increase the efficiency of renewable …

Abstract Development of a new environmentally safe coating for corrosion protection of
metallic surfaces attracted great interest in material science through the past few years …

Abstract The Biopharmaceutics Classification System (BCS) has found widespread utility in
drug discovery, product development and drug product regulatory sciences. The …

The article presents the state‐of‐the‐art of alternating physisorption of oppositely charged
polyelectrolytes, the so‐called “layer‐by‐layer” method or “electrostatic self …

This review addresses the fabrication and properties of novel polyelectrolyte microcapsules,
with an emphasis on their mechanical and permeability properties. Ease of preparation …

Recent advances in medicine and biotechnology have prompted the need to develop
nanoengineered delivery systems that can encapsulate a wide variety of novel therapeutics …

The advent of Layer-by-Layer (LbL) assembly to fabricate polymeric as well as hybrid
multilayer thin films has opened exciting avenues for the design of multifunctional drug …

Hollow polymer, inorganic and inorganic‐organic composite capsules of submicrometer to
micrometer size have been fabricated by using a variety of colloidal particles as templates …

This review summarizes recent developments in nanocontainer-based smart functional
coatings done during the last 15 years. These types of coatings were first developed by …

Recent developments in the field of self-assembly of polyelectrolyte multilayers are
presented and discussed. Fundamental studies of multilayers on planar or colloidal supports …