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ADVANCES IN COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 133, Issue 1, Pages 1-21Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2007.02.003
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lipids; interface; micro-submicro-nanoparticles; Lipid/Particle interactions; lipid adsorption
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In recent years, original hybrid assemblies composed of a particle core surrounded by a lipid shell emerged as promising entities for various biotechnological applications. Their broadened bio-potentialities, ranging from model membrane systems or biomolecule screening supports, to substance delivery reservoirs or therapeutic vectors, are furthered by their versatility of composition due to the possible wide variation in the particle nature and size, as well as in the lipid formulation. The synthesis, the characteristics, and the uses of these Lipid/Particle assemblies encountered in the literature so far are reviewed, and classified according to the spherical core size in order to highlight general trends. Moreover, several criteria are particularly discussed: i) the interactions involved between the particles and the lipids, and implicitly the assembly elaboration mechanism, ii) the most suited techniques for an accurate characterization of the entities from structural and physicochernical points of view, and iii) the remarkable properties of the solid-supported lipid membrane obtained. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V All rights reserved.
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