A convenient methodology for the synthesis of photolabile crosslinked hyperbranched polyglycerol nanocapsules is presented. These nanocarriers selectively and efficiently bind ionic guest molecules. The stability of the host-guest complexes formed depends on the counterion of the guest molecules. Moreover, the control over guest binding can be achieved by modification of the polymer building bl...

The present review compiles the applications of lipid nanoparticles mainly solid lipid nanoparticles (SLN) and nanostructured lipid carriers (NLC) for the delivery of pharmaceutical actives. The attempts to overcome the low solubility and bioavailability of some drugs by their incorporation into lipid nanocarriers have been summarized. A special focus of this review is on different routes of ad...

A simple general synthetic concept to build dendritic core-shell architectures with pH-labile linkers based on hyperbranched PEI cores and biocompatible PEG shells is presented. Using these dendritic core-shell architectures as nanocarriers, the encapsulation and transport of polar dyes of different sizes is studied. The results show that the acid-labile nanocarriers exhibit much higher transpo...

This article reviews advances in the design and development of multifunctional carbon-based and/or magnetic nanoparticle systems (or simply 'nanocarriers') for early cancer diagnosis and spatially and temporally controlled therapy. The critical issues in cancer diagnosis and treatment are addressed based on novel nanotechnologies such as real-time in-vivo imaging, drug storage and release, and ...

The use of nanotechnology has significantly increased in different fields of science, including the development of drug delivery systems. Currently, the most modern pharmaceutical nanocarriers, such as liposomes, micelles, nanoemulsions and polymeric nanoparticles, demonstrate extremely useful properties from the point of view of drug therapy. In this context, the development of nanocarriers fo...

Concerns associated with nanocarriers’ therapeutic efficacy and side effects have led to the development of strategies advance them into targeted responsive delivery systems. Owing their bioactivity biocompatibility, peptides play a key role in these and, thus, been extensively studied nanomedicine. Peptide-based nanocarriers, particular, burgeoned advances purely peptidic structures combinatio...

Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) therapy has opened exceptional advantageous opportunity for the treatment of diseases. Usually naked siRNA are subjected to internal harsh environment and rapidly degraded by RNases after administration. To overcome this issue various nanodelivery platforms have been developed and utilized in drug delivery due to narrowed size distribution, improved bioavailabili...

Polymer micelles with bioabsorbable mineralized calcium phosphate nanoshells have been synthesized and demonstrated to be robust nanocarriers for efficient intracellular drug delivery.

It was the aim of this study to develop a zeta potential changing drug delivery system by decorating lipid-based nanocarriers with polycationic cell penetrating peptide (CPP) and subsequently masking these cationic substructures polyphosphates. In order anchor CPP poly-l-lysine (PLL) on surface oily droplets an o/w nanoemulsion, stearic acid covalently attached peptide. The resulting CPP-decora...

Surface modification of nanocarriers with amphiphilic polymer polyethylene glycol (PEG), known as PEGylation, is regarded as a major breakthrough in the application of nanocarriers. However, PEGylated nanocarriers (including liposomes and polymeric nanoparticles) induce what is referred to as the "accelerated blood clearance (ABC) phenomenon" upon repeated injection and consequently they lose t...