Planar Lipid Bilayers (BLM's) and Their Applications, 1st Edition

Key Features

· Provides an overview of decades of research on the lipid bilayer
· 38 contributed chapters, by leading scientists, cover a wide range of topics in one authoritative volume
· Book coincides with 40th anniversary of BLM

Description

The lipid bilayer is the most basic structural element of cell membranes. A wide range of topics are covered in this volume, from the origin of the lipid bilayer concept, to current applications and experimental techniques. Each chapter in this volume is self-contained and describes a group's research, providing detailed methodology and key references useful for researchers. Lipid bilayer research is of great interest to many because of it's interdisciplinary nature.

Readership

Biochemists, biophysicists, colloid and surface chemists, electrochemists, physicists, physiologists, biotechnologists, and others working on membrane phenomena and ultrathin films.

Planar Lipid Bilayers (BLM's) and Their Applications, 1st Edition

I. Lipid bilayer principle of biomembranes
The lipid bilayer concept: Experimental realization and current applications; Dielectric and Electrical Properties of Lipid Bilayers in Relation to their Structure
II. Ion Selectivity, Specificity, and Membrane Reconstitution
Investigation of substrate-specific porin channels in lipid bilayer membranes; Reconstitution in planar lipid bilayers of ion channels synthesized in ovo and in vitro
III. Biotechnology
Systems Aspects of Supported Membrane Biosensors; Biosensors from interactions of DNA with lipid membranes
IV. Light-induced phenomena and spectroscopy
Photoinduced Charge Separation in Lipid Bilayers; Photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes in planar lipid membranes