Advances in planar lipid bilayers and liposomes

Although the origin and the basic meaning of the terms ""planar lipid bilayers"" and ""liposome"" have not changed during the years, the present advances in the scientific, technological, biomedical and consumer product fields are remarkable. Ever since its launch the ""Adances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes' (APLBL) has provided a global platform for a community of researchers having very broad scientific interests in theoretical, experimental and simulation studies on lipid and cell membrane micro and nanostructures. Ranging from artificial lipid membranes to cell membranes.

Front Cover; Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter One: Biomimetic Membrane Supported at a Metal Electrode Surface: A Molecular View; 1. Introduction; 2. sBLM Preparation Methods; 2.1. Vesicle fusion; 2.2. Langmuir-Blodgett and Langmuir-Schaefer deposition; 3. Potential Drop Across the Membrane and an Estimate of the Electric Field Acting on the Membrane; 4. Effect of the Potential Applied to the Gold Electrode on the Membrane Stability: AFM, NR, and Surface-Enhanced Infrared ...

5. Imaging Aggregation of Antibiotic Peptides in a Lipid Membrane6. Potential-Controlled Changes in the Orientation and Conformation of Peptides and Peripheral Proteins: IR Studies of Gra ... ; 7. Summary and Conclusions; Acknowledgment; References; Chapter Two: Lipid Monolayers at the Air-Water Interface: A Tool for Understanding Electrostatic Interactions and Rheology ... ; 1. Introduction; 2. Experimental Approaches on Monolayers; 3. Phase Diagrams: Two-Phase Regions; 4. Distribution of the Phases in the Plane of the Monolayer.

5. In-Plane Interactions and Consequences on Film Effective Rheology6. Comparison Between Different Model Membra…