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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 8.
Published in final edited form as: Nanotechnol Rev. 2012 Mar;1(2):111–146. doi: 10.1515/ntrev-2011-0005

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Lipid nanoparticles.

(A) Liposomes containing water-soluble PS in aqueous interior. (B) Liposomes containing lipid soluble PS in hydrophobic region of lipid bilayer. (C) Lipoplex formed from cationic lipids encapsulating anionic PS. (D) Nanoemulsion formed from nanometer-sized oil droplets with dissolved hydrophobic PS coated by neutral detergent. (E) Nanocell formed from a liposome with hydrophobic PS encapsulating additional targeting molecules such as antibodies in interior.