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Ion Channels in Tethered Bilayer Lipid Membranes on Au Electrodes

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Acknowledgments

We gratefully thank Dr. J. Long for providing the M2 peptides. Partial financial support came from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) through the MOLDICE program. I.K. acknowledges support from the Laboratoire Européen Associé (LEA) on “Polymers in Confined Geometries.”

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Köper, I., Vockenroth, I.K., Knoll, W. (2009). Ion Channels in Tethered Bilayer Lipid Membranes on Au Electrodes. In: Offenhäusser, A., Rinaldi, R. (eds) Nanobioelectronics - for Electronics, Biology, and Medicine. Nanostructure Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09459-5_9

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