Stable Reversed Vesicles in Oil: Characterization Studies and Encapsulation of Model Compounds

Membrane alternatives in worlds without oxygen: Creation of an azotosome

“…Experimental studies have been performed to create vesicles in nonpolar solvents. This has included the consideration of nonionic ethers (7), esters (8), surfactants (9), and inverted phospholipids (10). Inverse phospholipid membranes have even been considered as biological possibilities in liquid methane (7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16).…”

Reverse vesicle formation from the yeast glycolipid biosurfactant mannosylerythritol lipid-D

“…Reverse vesicles have potential as encapsulation materials 22 as well as new micro or nanostructures formed in nonaqueous systems. For example, the highly restricted twodimensional water channels within bilayers can trap guest molecules such as enzymes 20 …”

The influence of the incorporation of cholesterol and water on the particle size, bilayer thickness, melting behavior, and relative sucrose ester composition of reversed vesicles

“…These RVs were prepared in several pharmaceutical oils, like liquid paraffin, cyclomethicone, and isopropylpalmitate. Recently, we described the preparation of stable RVs from sucrose ester in cyclomethicone 2. The possibilities of the surfactant to form strong hydrogen bonds between its sucrose moieties, combined with the lack of such interaction between the sucrose moieties and the used oil phase, probably caused the stability of the described RVs.…”