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Bimolecular Lipid Membranes: Techniques of Formation, Study of Electrical Properties, and Induction of Ionic Gating Phenomena

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Laboratory Techniques in Membrane Biophysics

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Bimolecular membranes formed from cellular lipids have many properties of cell membranes [1 – 3]. They have the same values for thickness (75 ± 15 Å) [1,3,4], electrical capacitance (0.4 – 1.2 µF depending on lipid type) [1,5], dielectric strength (5 × 105 V cm-1) [1 – 3], water permeability (1 μ min-1 atm-1 by osmometry) [3] and surface tension (between 0 and 5 dynes cm-1) [3, 6].

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  1. II. Physiologisches Institut, Universität des Saarlandes, Homburg a. d. Saar, Germany

    H. Passow

  2. I. Physiologisches Institut, Universität des Saarlandes, Homburg a. d. Saar, Germany

    R. Stämpfli

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Mueller, P., Rudin, D.O. (1969). Bimolecular Lipid Membranes: Techniques of Formation, Study of Electrical Properties, and Induction of Ionic Gating Phenomena. In: Passow, H., Stämpfli, R. (eds) Laboratory Techniques in Membrane Biophysics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87259-4_12

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