Cubosomes: the next generation of smart lipid nanoparticles?

HMG Barriga, MN Holme… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Cubosomes are highly stable nanoparticles formed from the lipid cubic phase and stabilized
by a polymer based outer corona. Bicontinuous lipid cubic phases consist of a single lipid …

Cubosomes as an emerging platform for drug delivery: a review of the state of the art

MAS Abourehab, MJ Ansari, A Singh… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Lipid-based drug-delivery nanoparticles, including non-lamellar-type, mesophasic
nanostructured materials of lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs), have been a topic of interest for …

Nature‐Inspired design and application of lipidic lyotropic liquid crystals

R Mezzenga, JM Seddon, CJ Drummond… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Amphiphilic lipids aggregate in aqueous solution into a variety of structural arrangements.
Among the plethora of ordered structures that have been reported, many have also been …

Lyotropic liquid crystal engineering moving beyond binary compositional space–ordered nanostructured amphiphile self-assembly materials by design

L van't Hag, SL Gras, CE Conn… - Chemical society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Ordered amphiphile self-assembly materials with a tunable three-dimensional (3D)
nanostructure are of fundamental interest, and crucial for progressing several biological and …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in the design of ph-sensitive cubosome liquid crystalline nanocarriers for drug delivery applications

O Mertins, PD Mathews, A Angelova - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Nanostructure bicontinuous cubic phase self-assembled materials are receiving expanding
applications as biocompatible delivery systems in various therapeutic fields. The …

Lyotropic liquid crystals as templates for advanced materials

Y Saadat, OQ Imran, CO Osuji… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs) have drawn attention in numerous technical fields as they
feature a variety of nanometer-scale structures, processability, and diverse chemical …

Responsive self-assembled nanostructured lipid systems for drug delivery and diagnostics

WK Fong, R Negrini, JJ Vallooran, R Mezzenga… - Journal of colloid and …, 2016 - Elsevier
While stimuli-responsive polymers have received a huge amount of attention in the
literature, responsive lipid-based mesophase systems offer unique opportunities in …

Recent advances of non-lamellar lyotropic liquid crystalline nanoparticles in nanomedicine

S Murgia, S Biffi, R Mezzenga - Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface …, 2020 - Elsevier
Non-lamellar lyotropic liquid crystalline nanocarriers such as hexosomes and cubosomes
are relatively unexplored lipid-based nanoparticles in nanomedicine that can be specifically …

Nodal lines in momentum space: topological invariants and recent realizations in photonic and other systems

H Park, W Gao, X Zhang, SS Oh - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
Topological insulators constitute one of the most intriguing phenomena in modern
condensed matter theory. The unique and exotic properties of topological states of matter …

A liquid-crystalline hexagonal columnar phase in highly-dilute suspensions of imogolite nanotubes

E Paineau, MEM Krapf, MS Amara… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Liquid crystals have found wide applications in many fields ranging from detergents to
information displays and they are also increasingly being used in the 'bottom-up'self …