{"id":232201,"date":"2026-02-27T05:27:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/smart-materials-and-drug-delivery-could-exploit-lipid-molecules-that-reorganize-at-drying-interfaces"},"modified":"2026-02-27T05:27:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:27:42","slug":"smart-materials-and-drug-delivery-could-exploit-lipid-molecules-that-reorganize-at-drying-interfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/smart-materials-and-drug-delivery-could-exploit-lipid-molecules-that-reorganize-at-drying-interfaces","title":{"rendered":"Smart materials and drug delivery could exploit lipid molecules that reorganize at drying interfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/smart-materials-and-drug-delivery-could-exploit-lipid-molecules-that-reorganize-at-drying-interfaces.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Minor changes in moisture level can promote lipid molecules to reorganize themselves in biomaterial or biomembranes. This can affect how the skin, lungs and tear film protect us from dehydration. This new discovery from Lund University in Sweden could be the inspiration for smart materials and new drug delivery techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a membrane that separates dry air from a moist interior. When moisture levels become lower, the lipid molecules organize themselves in an adaptive way\u2014and now researchers in Lund have characterized this process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat surprised me was how powerful the sorting of the lipid molecules was even at small changes in the moisture level. I had not expected this based on what we know about the systems in conditions where there is no evaporation,\u201d says Nikol Labecka, researcher in chemistry at Lund University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minor changes in moisture level can promote lipid molecules to reorganize themselves in biomaterial or biomembranes. This can affect how the skin, lungs and tear film protect us from dehydration. This new discovery from Lund University in Sweden could be the inspiration for smart materials and new drug delivery techniques. Imagine a membrane that separates [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}