These amphiphilic cholesterol-peptide conjugates are composed of hydrophobic cholesterol and positively charged peptides.
Qiong Tang, Bin Cao, Haiyan Wu, Gang Cheng 2013, 'Cholesterol-Peptide Hybrids to Form Liposome-Like Vesicles for Gene Delivery', PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0054460. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The amphiphilic nanoparticles foam system has a better plugging capacity and enhanced oil recovery capacity.
Keliang Wang, Gang Wang, Chunjing Lu, Cuiying Pei, Ying Wang 2017, 'Preparation and Investigation of Foaming Amphiphilic Fluorinated Nanoparticles forEnhanced Oil Recovery', Materialshttps://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/10/12/1403. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The polypropylene surface was plasma-activated and then, dip-coated with differentamphiphilic molecules.
Fabienne Poncin-Epaillard, Armand Perret-Liaudet, Gilbert Legeay, Isabelle Quadrio,Arnaud Coudreuse, Benaïssa El Moualij, Willy Zorzi, Dominique Debarnot, Caroline Mille 2012, 'Increasing the Detection Limit of the Parkinson Disorder through a Specific SurfaceChemistry Applied onto Inner Surface of the Titration Well', Journal of Functional Biomaterialshttp://www.mdpi.com/2079-4983/3/2/298. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Lignocellulose micelles can be conveniently prepared by self-assembly of amphiphilic lignocellulosederivatives in aqueous solution.
Xiaohui Wang Mail, Runcang Sun 2011, 'SELF-ASSEMBLED LIGNOCELLULOSE MICELLES: A NEW GENERATION OF VALUE-ADDED FUNCTIONALNANOSTRUCTURES', BioResourceshttp://ojs.cnr.ncsu.edu/index.php/BioRes/article/view/BioRes_06_3_2288_Wang_Sun_Self-assembled_Lignocell_Micelles/993. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Amphiphilic dicationic surfactants, known as gemini surfactants, are currently studied for gene delivery purposes.
Maciej Kozak, Wojciech Kida, Weronika Andrzejewska, Rafał Krzysztoń, Zuzanna Pietralik 2013, 'Structure and Conformational Dynamics of DMPC/Dicationic Surfactant and DMPC/DicationicSurfactant/DNA Systems', International Journal of Molecular Scienceshttp://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/14/4/7642. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Among them, self-assembled micellar nanoparticles from amphiphilic (macro)molecules have recently emerged as promising candidates.
Thomas Trimaille, Bernard Verrier 2015, 'Micelle-Based Adjuvants for Subunit Vaccine Delivery', Vaccineshttp://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/3/4/803. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
These (supra)colloidal systems can be very useful to obtain catalysts with tunable amphiphilic properties.
Loïc Leclercq 2018, 'Get Beyond Limits: From Colloidal Tectonics Concept to the Engineering of Eco-FriendlyCatalytic Systems', Frontiers in Chemistryhttps://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fchem.2018.00168/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In this work, an amphiphilic oxygen-defective tungsten oxide was synthesized by a colloidal chemistry method.
Haibin Sun, Peiwen Wu, Jing He, Mingyang Liu, Linhua Zhu, Fengxia Zhu, Guangying Chen,Minqiang He, Wenshuai Zhu 2018, 'Fabrication of oxygen-defective tungsten oxide nanorods for deep oxidative desulfurizationof fuel', Petroleum Sciencehttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12182-018-0265-7. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
First, microphase separation of amphiphilic block copolymers induced the formation of spherical nanoobjects.
Mentovich Elad D, Livanov Konstantin, Prusty Deepak K, Sowwan Mukules, Richter Shachar 2012, 'DNA-nanoparticle assemblies go organic: Macroscopic polymeric materials with nanosizedfeatures', Journal of Nanobiotechnologyhttp://www.jnanobiotechnology.com/content/10/1/21. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We conclude that for this amphiphilic model compound several pathways through the skin exist.
Pierre Volz, Alexander Boreham, Alexander Wolf, Tai-Yang Kim, Jens Balke, Janna Frombach,Sabrina Hadam, Zahra Afraz, Fiorenza Rancan, Ulrike Blume-Peytavi, Annika Vogt, UlrikeAlexiev 2015, 'Application of Single Molecule Fluorescence Microscopy to Characterize the Penetrationof a Large Amphiphilic Molecule in the Stratum Corneum of Human Skin', International Journal of Molecular Scienceshttp://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/16/4/6960. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)