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Lipid monolayers on water have long been favored as a structural model of the cell membrane. However, despite intensive efforts, the insights which the lipid films have contributed to the understanding of membrane structure and function have been largely qualitative. Thus the importance of molecular shape and orientation at water surfaces (Hardy, 1912; Langmuir, 1917) and the existence of monolayer states which are analogous to those states which exist in bulk (Devaux, 1913) were established with studies of single-component lipid films (Adam and Jessop, 1926). But questions pertaining to the energetics of the lipid-lipid and polar group interactions and the contribution of water to film structure were left largely speculative.
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Gershfeld, N.L. (1974). Thermodynamics and Experimental Methods for Equilibrium Studies with Lipid Monolayers. In: Korn, E.D. (eds) Methods in Membrane Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7422-4_2
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