“…They can be used in the treatment of schizophrenia or diseases caused by dopamine metabolic dysfunction [67,72] and microbial infections [37]. MELs are used in the puriWcation of lectins (Immunoglobulin G) [9,15,16,21,39] and in the preparation of ice-slurry as an antiagglomeration agent [41,42]. Self-assembling properties [17-20, 39, 43, 70] of MELs are of recent interest because this behavior could be leveraged in gene transfection and drug delivery [23,24,42,43,65,66].…”