Subject area	Materials Science, Physics, Biology
More specific subject area	Nanotechnology, Development of drug delivery nanosystems
Type of data	Text and graphs
How data was acquired	Dynamic light-scattering. Flow cytometry. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).
Data format	Analyzed
Experimental factors	Lipid nanocapsules obtained by solvent displacement technique with a core of olive oil and a shell composed by lecithin, poloxamers or their mixtures.
	The human lung-cancer cell line (A549) and the human leukemic monocytic lymphoma cell line (U937)
Experimental features	Electrophoretic mobility measurements. Uptake analysis of Coumarin 6-loaded nanocapsules. Determination of the encapsulation efficiency of Docetaxel.
Data source location	Dpt. of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
Data accessibility	Data are available within this article and are related to[1]