Preparation, Characterization and Applications starting Liposomes: State of the Art

Liposomes, spherical-shaped nanovesicles, were discovered in the 60ies until Bangham. Since that, they were extensively studied when ability drug carrier. Due to their composition variability and structural properties, liposomes are extremely versatile leading to a large number starting applications including pharmaceutical, cosmetics and food industrial domains. This bibliographic paper quotes a general review at to background both development of liposomes with a focus on training methods including classic (thin film carbonation, reverse-phase chemical, methanol injection...) and novel scalable techniques. And, liposome characterization techniques including middling size, zetapotential, lamellarity, closure efficiency, in vitro drug release, vesicles stability and lipid analysis artificial from other published works are announced. The current deepening and widening of liposome interest in many scientific controls and their application in pharmaceutics, cosmetics and food industrial as promising novel breakthrough and products where also edited. Finally, an opinion on the usefulness of liposomes in various applications ranging starting unsubstantiated optimism up undeserved pessimism will given. The obtained information allows establishing criteria available selecting liposomes as a drug carrier according go its advantages and limitations.