Responsive switchable deep eutectic solvents: A review

J Zhang, S Li, L Yao, Y Yi, L Shen, Z Li, H Qiu - Chinese Chemical Letters, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) have drawn considerable attention as a new type of green
solvent since they were reported. Subsequent studies have shown that DESs have the …

[HTML][HTML] Taste of fat: a sixth taste modality?

P Besnard, P Passilly-Degrace… - Physiological …, 2015‏ - journals.physiology.org
An attraction for palatable foods rich in lipids is shared by rodents and humans. Over the last
decade, the mechanisms responsible for this specific eating behavior have been actively …

A review on microfluidic-assisted nanoparticle synthesis, and their applications using multiscale simulation methods

A Agha, W Waheed, I Stiharu, V Nerguizian… - Discover Nano, 2023‏ - Springer
Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in the development of nanoparticles
(NPs) owing to their potential use in a wide variety of biomedical applications, including drug …

The martini model in materials science

R Alessandri, F Grünewald, SJ Marrink - Advanced Materials, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
The Martini model, a coarse‐grained force field initially developed with biomolecular
simulations in mind, has found an increasing number of applications in the field of soft …

[HTML][HTML] Computational and experimental approaches for investigating nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems

M Ramezanpour, SSW Leung… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Most therapeutic agents suffer from poor solubility, rapid clearance from the blood stream, a
lack of targeting, and often poor translocation ability across cell membranes. Drug/gene …

Systems protobiology: origin of life in lipid catalytic networks

D Lancet, R Zidovetzki… - Journal of The Royal …, 2018‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Life is that which replicates and evolves, but there is no consensus on how life emerged. We
advocate a systems protobiology view, whereby the first replicators were assemblies of …

Deep eutectic solvent with thermo-switchable hydrophobicity

O Longeras, A Gautier… - ACS Sustainable …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
A deep eutectic solvent (DES) that becomes hydrophobic upon increasing the temperature
is presented for the first time. The aqueous solution of this DES composed of lidocaine, an …

Exploring the Membrane-Active Interactions of Antimicrobial Long-Chain Fatty Acids Using a Supported Lipid Bilayer Model for Gram-Positive Bacterial Membranes

S Shin, J Yu, H Tae, Y Zhao, D Jiang… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
The dynamic nature of bacterial lipid membranes significantly impacts the efficacy of
antimicrobial therapies. However, traditional assay methods often fall short in replicating the …

Cationic rifampicin nanoemulsion for the treatment of ocular tuberculosis

MAB Henostroza, KJC Melo, MN Yukuyama… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Ocular infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis affected an estimated 0.1− 0.2
million people in the year 2018 worldwide and may result in irreversible loss of vision if not …

[HTML][HTML] Growth of wormlike micelles in nonionic surfactant solutions: Quantitative theory vs. experiment

KD Danov, PA Kralchevsky, SD Stoyanov… - Advances in colloid and …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Despite the considerable advances of molecular-thermodynamic theory of micelle growth,
agreement between theory and experiment has been achieved only in isolated cases. A …