Abstract
After a brief overview of hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity, important for understanding the nature of interactions in organic nanoparticles, this chapter focuses on the structure and formation of micelles and vesicles, that is, the nanoscale objects formed by self-assembly of amphiphilic organic molecules. Next, emulsion-based nanoparticles are reviewed, including self-assembled thermodynamically stable microemulsions and kinetically trapped miniemulsions. Macromolecular dendric nanoparticles and their synthesis are discussed next, including naturally derived phytoglycogen nanoparticles. Finally, another important class of organic nanoparticles, cellulose nanocrystals, are introduced, including how they are obtained, their structure and synthetic modification approaches.
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