A comprehensive review on recent preparation techniques of liposomes

C Has, P Sunthar - Journal of liposome research, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Liposomes (or lipid vesicles) are a versatile platform as carriers for the delivery of the drugs
and other macromolecules into human and animal bodies. Though the method of using …

Protocells: Milestones and recent advances

I Gözen, ES Köksal, I Põldsalu, L Xue, K Spustova… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The origin of life is still one of humankind's great mysteries. At the transition between
nonliving and living matter, protocells, initially featureless aggregates of abiotic matter, gain …

Topology and dynamics of active nematic vesicles

FC Keber, E Loiseau, T Sanchez, SJ DeCamp, L Giomi… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Engineering synthetic materials that mimic the remarkable complexity of living organisms is
a fundamental challenge in science and technology. We studied the spatiotemporal patterns …

Microfluidic assembly of monodisperse vesosomes as artificial cell models

NN Deng, M Yelleswarapu, L Zheng… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Vesosomes are nested liposomal structures with high potential as advanced drug delivery
vehicles, bioreactors and artificial cells. However, to date no method has been reported to …

Multicompartmentalized polymeric systems: towards biomimetic cellular structure and function

M Marguet, C Bonduelle… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The cell is certainly one of the most complex and exciting systems in Nature that scientists
are still trying to fully understand. Such a challenge pushes material scientists to seek to …

Microfluidic methods for forming liposomes

D van Swaay, A DeMello - Lab on a Chip, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Liposome structures have a wide range of applications in biology, biochemistry, and
biophysics. As a result, several methods for forming liposomes have been developed. This …

Gel-assisted formation of giant unilamellar vesicles

A Weinberger, FC Tsai, GH Koenderink, TF Schmidt… - Biophysical journal, 2013 - cell.com
Giant unilamellar vesicles or GUVs are systems of choice as biomimetic models of cellular
membranes. Although a variety of procedures exist for making single walled vesicles of tens …

Monodisperse uni-and multicompartment liposomes

NN Deng, M Yelleswarapu… - Journal of the American …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Liposomes are self-assembled phospholipid vesicles with great potential in fields ranging
from targeted drug delivery to artificial cells. The formation of liposomes using microfluidic …

Reconstitution of contractile actomyosin rings in vesicles

T Litschel, CF Kelley, D Holz, M Adeli Koudehi… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
One of the grand challenges of bottom-up synthetic biology is the development of minimal
machineries for cell division. The mechanical transformation of large-scale compartments …

Microfluidics for biosynthesizing: from droplets and vesicles to artificial cells

Y Ai, R **e, J **ong, Q Liang - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Fabrication of artificial biomimetic materials has attracted abundant attention. As one of the
subcategories of biomimetic materials, artificial cells are highly significant for multiple …