Recent advancements in the area of drug delivery have opened up newer avenues to develop novel drug delivery systems (DDSs) and self-assembled nanostructures have shown their tremendous potential to be used as facile and efficient materials for this purpose. Self-assembly of amphiphiles into nanostructures (micelles, vesicles, and hydrogels) happens due to various physical interactions. Currently, self-assembled nanomaterials are finding a wide variety of applications in the area of nanotechnology, imaging techniques, biosensors, biomedical sciences, etc., due to its simplicity, spontaneity, scalability, versatility, and inexpensiveness.
It imparts unique properties to both inorganic and organic structures, so generated, via non-covalent interactions. Self-assembly is the process of association of individual units of a material into highly arranged/ordered structures/patterns. Nucleic Acids Research Laboratory, CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, India.
Santosh Yadav, Ashwani Kumar Sharma and Pradeep Kumar *
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