Topological and Morphological Membrane Dynamics in Giant Lipid Vesicles Driven by Monoolein Cubosomes.

Lipid nanoparticles have important applications as biomedical delivery platforms and broader engineering biology applications in artificial cell technologies. These emerging technologies often require changes in the shape and topology of biological or biomimetic membranes. Here we show that topologically-active lyotropic liquid crystal nanoparticles (LCNPs) can trigger such transformations in the membranes of giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs).

A synchrotron X-ray scattering study of the crystallization behavior of mixtures of confectionary triacylglycerides: Effect of chemical composition and shear on polymorphism and kinetics.

Cocoa butter equivalents (CBE) are mixtures of triglycerides from multiple sources (e.g., sunflower oil, mango kernel and sal), which resemble cocoa butter (CB) in both physical and chemical properties.

From angular to round: in depth interfacial analysis of binary phosphatidylethanolamine mixtures in the inverse hexagonal phase.

Packing stress in the lipidic inverse hexagonal H phase arises from the necessity of the ideally cylinder-shaped micelles to fill out the hexagonally-shaped Wigner-Seitz unit cell. Thus, hydrocarbon chains stretch towards the corners and compress in the direction of the flat side of the hexagonal unit cell. Additionally, the lipid/water interface deviates from being perfectly circular.

Correction: Planar confined water organisation in lipid bilayer stacks of phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine.

Correction for 'Planar confined water organisation in lipid bilayer stacks of phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine' by Gerome Vancuylenberg , , 2023, https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SM00387F.