Lipid Nanotechnology

Lipids are fatty, waxy, or oily and are soluble in organic solvents but insoluble in polar solvents like water. They possess a variety of useful qualities for application in nanotechnology. Due to their amphiphilicity, variety of head and tail chemistry, and antifouling characteristics that prevent nonspecific attachment to lipid-coated surfaces, lipids are a potent instrument in the arsenal of nanotechnology. They can self-assemble into liposomes, reverse micelles, micelles, and other nanostructures such nanofilms and micelles. Lipid molecules self-interact to form nanostructures, but the resulting structures essentially do not show non-specific binding of other biomolecules, a characteristic that enables lipid-based nano-devices to work inside the human body. Lipids have been utilised to create nano-sized devices in a number of different fields, including

• Liposomal Nanomedicine
• Liposome Nanofluidics
• Nano-lipid assemblies
• Lipid Nanoelectronics