Phospholipids ripple structure

Besides differential scanning calorimetry, electron microscopy can also serve for characterizing the mixing behavior of multicomponent vesicular systems. The ripple structure of phospholipids with saturated alkyl chains (also referred to as smectic Bca phase, Fig. 35) is taken to indicate patch formation (immiscibility) in mixed phos-close enough (1-2 nm) lipid molecules are able to diffuse from one membrane to the between the pre- and main-transition of the corresponding phospholipid, electron... 

Fig. 35. Scheme of the "ripple structure of bi layers of saturated phospholipids found between the pre-transition and main-transition of the membrane 86)... 

Fig.16 Schematic representation of "ripple" structure of saturated phospholipids (17).

Sengupta K, Raghunathan VA, Katsaras J (2003) Structure of the ripple phase of phospholipid multibilayers. Phys Rev E 68(3) 031710... 

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