The multiple type
It is an oil-in-solid lipid-in-water dispersion. The solid lipid matrix
contains tiny liquid oil nanocompartments (Figure 8 right). This NLC type uses the fact
that for a number of drugs, the solubility in oils is higher than their solubility in solid
lipids.
Figure 8 The three types of NLC: imperfect type concentrations of oil (left), amorphous
type (