E. Del Favero

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of different characterization techniques for polymeric micelles is presented, from the ones used for the determination of micells basic characteristics (critical micellar concentration, size, surface charge, morphology) to the more complex approaches used to figure out micellers kinetic stability, drug release and behavior in the presence of biological substrates (fluids, cells and tissues).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors underline some features concerning interactions and organization in the hydrophilic region of glycolipid aggregates that constitute an experimental and theoretical challenge, as they invest some aspects of colloidal self-assembly that keep on being not completely understood.

TL;DR: In this article, both light-scattering and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurements account for the existence of a dramatic thermal hysteresis effect occurring in micellar solutions of gangliosides.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors combined small-angle neutron and X-ray scattering experiments on dilute solutions of the ganglioside GM3 in water are presented, where the contrast profiles along the lipid and sugar portions of the GM3 molecule for the two types of radiations are different, a feature which, added to the extension of the scattering q range to q ∼ 0.4 A-1, allows an accurate determination of the cross section of the bilayer in dilute solution.

TL;DR: The peculiar feature of the GM1 molecule to present a conformational bistability, recently observed in ganglioside micelles, can be well recognized in the cubic phase region, suggesting that GM1-water behaves like a pseudoternary system, with an additional degree of freedom, automatically readjusting the mole fraction of the two conformers in order to optimize the molecular packing.