CONICET | Buscador de Institutos y Recursos Humanos

Ionic Liquids (ILs) are an interesting category of compounds particularly due to the possibility to easily synthesize them, with different properties in the lab. The interest for ILs with amphiphilic character (IL-like surfactants) has been growing up due to versatility in creating useful supramolecular assemblies. In this short review, it is described the current state of IL-like surfactants to prepare vesicles in water. Particularly, the focus was put on the experiments performed by South American researchers using protic and aprotic surfactants. Finally, it summarizes some preliminary results obtained in our lab about theapplication in nanomedicine that these novel vesicles can offer.