Magnetic Nanocomposite Micelles and Vesicles

Formation and stability of micelles and vesicles

Iron Oxide Nanoparticle-Micelles (ION-Micelles) for Sensitive (Molecular) Magnetic Particle Imaging and Magnetic Resonance Imaging

BACKGROUND Iron oxide nanoparticles (IONs) are a promising nanoplatform for contrast-enhanced MRI. Recently, magnetic particle imaging (MPI) was introduced as a new imaging modality, which is able to directly visualize magnetic particles and could serve as a more sensitive and quantitative alternative to MRI. However, MPI requires magnetic particles with specific magnetic properties for optimal...

Glyco-Inside Micelles and Vesicles Directed by Protection− Deprotection Chemistry

Protection−deprotection of carbohydrate is often required in the preparation of glycopolymers, which causes an obvious polarity change of the polymers, but it has been neglected in the studies of self-assembly. In this paper, a new strategy for self-assembly of sugar-containing block copolymers is suggested based on the protection−deprotection chemistry. We found that deacetylation of a series ...

Hydrolytic Metallo-Nanozymes: From Micelles and Vesicles to Gold Nanoparticles.

Although the term nanozymes was coined by us in 2004 to highlight the enzyme-like properties of gold nanoparticles passivated with a monolayer of Zn(II)-complexes in the cleavage of phosphate diesters, systems resembling those metallo-nanoparticles, like micelles and vesicles, have been the subject of investigation since the mid-eighties of the last century. This paper reviews what has been don...

Vesicles in magnetic fields

Liposome vesicles tend to align with an applied magnetic field. This is due to the directional magnetic susceptibility difference of the lipids which form the membrane of these vesicles. In this work a model of liposome vesicles exposed to magnetic field is presented. Starting from the base energy of a lipid membrane in a magnetic field, the force applied to the surrounding fluids is derived. T...