Particles, method of preparing said particles and uses thereof

A method of preparing particles from a homogeneous liquid crystalline phase or L3 phase, which comprises forming a homogeneous, non-lamellar lyotropic liquid crystalline phase selected from the group consisting of a reversed cubic liquid crystalline phase and a reversed hexagonal liquid crystalline phase, or a homogeneous L3 phase, or any combination thereof, creating a local dispersible phase, within said homogeneous phase, of a phase selected from the group consisting of a lamellar crystalline phase and a lamellar liquid crystalline phase, or an L3 phase, or any combination thereof, in the presence of a solvent phase, said solvent being of a nature with which said homogeneous phase can coexist and wherein said dispersible phase can be dispersed, and fragmentating said homogeneous phase so as to form particles, the interior phase of which comprises said homogeneous phase and the surface phase of which comprises said dispersible phase.