Observing self-assembled lipid nanoparticles building order and complexity through low-energy transformation processes

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2789-2797

  Mulet, Xavier ^a   Gong, Xiaojuan ^a,b   Waddington, Lynne J ^a   Drummond, Calum J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cryo TEM; Inverse bicontinuous cubic phase; Lamellar phase; Synchrotron SAXS; Transition

Indexed keywords

BICONTINUOUS; BICONTINUOUS CUBIC STRUCTURE; CELLULAR ORGANELLES; CRYO-TEM; CRYO-TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HIERARCHICAL SELF-ASSEMBLY; INTERMEDIATE STRUCTURES; INVERSE BICONTINUOUS CUBIC PHASE; LAMELLAR PHASE; LIPID NANOPARTICLES; LOW ENERGIES; MEMBRANE PORES; MEMBRANE STRUCTURES; NANO SCALE; NANO-MATERIALS; NON EQUILIBRIUM; NONEQUILIBRIUM STATE; PORE EVOLUTION; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SOFT MATTER; STERIC STABILIZERS; SYNCHROTRON SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERINGS; TRANSITION;

BIOLOGY; CELL MEMBRANES; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; LAMELLAR STRUCTURES; LIPID BILAYERS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SYNCHROTRONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; X RAY SCATTERING;

TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; LIPID BILAYER; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CELL MEMBRANE; LIPID BILAYERS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOPARTICLES; POLYMERS; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 70349548901     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900671u     Document Type: Article

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