Interfacial properties of lipid sponge-like nanoparticles and the role of stabilizer on particle structure and surface interactions
The advantage of using nonlamellar lipid liquid crystalline phases has been demonstrated in many applications, such as drug delivery, protein encapsulation and crystallisation. We have recently reported that a mixture of mono- and diglycerides is able to form sponge-like nanoparticles (L 3 -NPs) with large enough aqueous pores to encapsulate macromolecules such as proteins. Here we use small ang