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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Colloid Interface Sci. 2013 May 2;0:68–84. doi: 10.1016/j.cis.2013.04.003

Table 2.

Membrane-mimetic surface functionalized nanoparticles in biomedical applications

NPs Lipid Application Reference
Magnetic
Nanoparticle 		PE-based Lipids:
DSPE, DOPE, DMPE, DPPE,
DSPE-PEGx 		MRI Contrast Agents
Drug/Gene Delivery		 29-31, 33, 42, 47, 48, 53
5, 32, 45, 48
PC-Based Lipids:
DOPC, DPPC, DSPC
DLPC		 MRI Contrast Agents
Hyperthermia		 53
33, 34
Cationic Lipids:
DOTAP		 MRI Contrast Agents 42
Quantum Dot PE-based Lipids:
DSPE, DOPE, DMPE
DSPE-PEGx 		Imaging, Diagnostics
Drug/Gene Delivery		 3, 70-73, 79, 81, 82
73, 79, 82
PC-Based Lipids:
DOPC, DPPC, DSPC, MHPC		 Imaging, Diagnostics
Drug/Gene Delivery		 3, 70-72, 74, 79
79
Cationic Lipids:
DOTAP		 Imaging, Diagnostics
Drug/Gene Delivery		 73, 74, 79
73, 79
Gold
nanoparticle 		PE-based Lipids:
DSPE, DMPE
DSPE-PEGx 		Imaging Diagnostics 92
PC-Based Lipids:
DOPC, DPPC, DSPC, MHPC		 Imaging, Diagnostics
Drug/Gene Delivery		 90-94
88
Silica
Nanoparticle 		PE-based Lipids:
DSPE, DOPE, DMPE
DSPE-PEGx 		Drug/Gene Delivery 116, 117
PC-Based Lipids:
DOPC, DPPC, DSPC, DMPC,
MHPC, POPC		 Imaging, Diagnostics
Drug/Gene Delivery		 107, 113, 115
112-121
Cationic Lipids:
DOTAP		 Drug/Gene Delivery 107, 116, 117, 121
Polymeric
Nanoparticle 		PE-based Lipids:
DSPE, DOPE, DMPE
DSPE-PEGx 		Drug/Gene Delivery 128-131
PC-Based Lipids:
DOPC, DPPC, DSPC, DMPC,
DLPC		 Drug/Gene Delivery 127, 129, 130, 132
134-136
Cationic Lipids: DPTAP Drug/Gene Delivery 127, 132