[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in carrier mediated nose-to-brain delivery of pharmaceutics

V Bourganis, O Kammona, A Alexopoulos… - European journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Central nervous system (CNS) disorders (eg, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, etc.)
represent a growing public health issue, primarily due to the increased life expectancy and …

Hofmeister effects shine in nanoscience

W Wei - Advanced Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hofmeister effects play a crucial role in nanoscience by affecting the physicochemical and
biochemical processes. Thus far, numerous wonderful applications from various aspects of …

Defects and defect engineering in Soft Matter

A Jangizehi, F Schmid, P Besenius, K Kremer… - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Soft matter covers a wide range of materials based on linear or branched polymers, gels and
rubbers, amphiphilic (macro) molecules, colloids, and self-assembled structures. These …

Interaction of ionic liquids with a lipid bilayer: a biophysical study of ionic liquid cytotoxicity

B **g, N Lan, J Qiu, Y Zhu - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2016 - ACS Publications
Ionic liquids (ILs) have been widely considered and used as “green solvents” for more than
two decades. However, their ecotoxicity results have contradicted this view, as ILs …

Direct proof of spontaneous translocation of lipid-covered hydrophobic nanoparticles through a phospholipid bilayer

Y Guo, E Terazzi, R Seemann, JB Fleury… - Science advances, 2016 - science.org
Hydrophobic nanoparticles introduced into living systems may lead to increased toxicity, can
activate immune cells, or can be used as nanocarriers for drug or gene delivery. It is …

Molecular mechanisms of ionic liquid cytotoxicity probed by an integrated experimental and computational approach

B Yoo, B **g, SE Jones, GA Lamberti, Y Zhu… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Ionic liquids (ILs) are salts that remain liquid down to low temperatures and sometimes well
below room temperature. ILs have been called “green solvents” because of their …

Emerging investigator series: interactions of engineered nanomaterials with the cell plasma membrane; what have we learned from membrane models?

AM Farnoud, S Nazemidashtarjandi - Environmental Science: Nano, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
With the increasing industrial and biomedical applications of engineered nanomaterials
(ENMs), concerns have been raised regarding the increased risk of exposure. Exposure to …

Rupture of lipid membranes induced by amphiphilic Janus nanoparticles

K Lee, L Zhang, Y Yi, X Wang, Y Yu - Acs Nano, 2018 - ACS Publications
The surface coatings of nanoparticles determine their interaction with biomembranes, but
studies have been limited almost exclusively to nanoparticles with a uniform surface …

Probing the interaction between nanoparticles and lipid membranes by quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring

N Yousefi, N Tufenkji - Frontiers in chemistry, 2016 - frontiersin.org
There is increasing interest in using quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring
(QCM-D) to investigate the interaction of nanoparticles (NPs) with model surfaces. The high …

Surface-functionalized polystyrene nanoparticles alter the transmembrane potential via ion-selective pores maintaining global bilayer integrity

DA Perini, E Parra-Ortiz, I Varó, M Queralt-Martín… - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
Although nanoplastics have well-known toxic effects toward the environment and living
organisms, their molecular toxicity mechanisms, including the nature of nanoparticle–cell …