Feasibility of drug delivery mediated by ultra-short and intense pulsed electric fields
The increasing interest towards biocompatible nanotechnologies in medicine, combined with electric fields stimulation, is leading to the development of electro-sensitive smart systems for drug delivery applications. Common examples of electro-sensitive materials include phospholipids that can be used to design nano-sized vesicles suitable for external electric actuation. To this regard, recently the use of pulsed electric fields to trigger release across phospholipid membranes has been numerically studied, for a deeper understanding of the phenomena at the molecular scale.