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Lipid Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is a multidisciplinary field that covers a vast and diverse array of devices and machines derived from engineering, physics, materials science, chemistry and biology. These devices have found applications in biomedical sciences, such as targeted drug delivery, bio-imaging, sensing and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3588097/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23429269 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms14024242 |
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author | Mashaghi, Samaneh Jadidi, Tayebeh Koenderink, Gijsje Mashaghi, Alireza |
author_facet | Mashaghi, Samaneh Jadidi, Tayebeh Koenderink, Gijsje Mashaghi, Alireza |
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description | Nanotechnology is a multidisciplinary field that covers a vast and diverse array of devices and machines derived from engineering, physics, materials science, chemistry and biology. These devices have found applications in biomedical sciences, such as targeted drug delivery, bio-imaging, sensing and diagnosis of pathologies at early stages. In these applications, nano-devices typically interface with the plasma membrane of cells. On the other hand, naturally occurring nanostructures in biology have been a source of inspiration for new nanotechnological designs and hybrid nanostructures made of biological and non-biological, organic and inorganic building blocks. Lipids, with their amphiphilicity, diversity of head and tail chemistry, and antifouling properties that block nonspecific binding to lipid-coated surfaces, provide a powerful toolbox for nanotechnology. This review discusses the progress in the emerging field of lipid nanotechnology. |
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spelling | pubmed-35880972013-03-13 Lipid Nanotechnology Mashaghi, Samaneh Jadidi, Tayebeh Koenderink, Gijsje Mashaghi, Alireza Int J Mol Sci Review Nanotechnology is a multidisciplinary field that covers a vast and diverse array of devices and machines derived from engineering, physics, materials science, chemistry and biology. These devices have found applications in biomedical sciences, such as targeted drug delivery, bio-imaging, sensing and diagnosis of pathologies at early stages. In these applications, nano-devices typically interface with the plasma membrane of cells. On the other hand, naturally occurring nanostructures in biology have been a source of inspiration for new nanotechnological designs and hybrid nanostructures made of biological and non-biological, organic and inorganic building blocks. Lipids, with their amphiphilicity, diversity of head and tail chemistry, and antifouling properties that block nonspecific binding to lipid-coated surfaces, provide a powerful toolbox for nanotechnology. This review discusses the progress in the emerging field of lipid nanotechnology. MDPI 2013-02-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3588097/ /pubmed/23429269 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms14024242 Text en © 2013 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Mashaghi, Samaneh Jadidi, Tayebeh Koenderink, Gijsje Mashaghi, Alireza Lipid Nanotechnology |
title | Lipid Nanotechnology |
title_full | Lipid Nanotechnology |
title_fullStr | Lipid Nanotechnology |
title_full_unstemmed | Lipid Nanotechnology |
title_short | Lipid Nanotechnology |
title_sort | lipid nanotechnology |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3588097/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23429269 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms14024242 |
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