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Bimolecular thick, bilayer or black, lipid membranes (BLMs) provide the thinnest man-made semipermeable barrier which separates two compartments containing aqueous solutions.1,2 Advantage has been taken of BLMs to model the functioning of the biological membrane by incorporating synthetic and natural ion carriers.3,4 Sensitive electrical measurements, voltage clamping, and single-channel recording have formed the bases of our current understanding of biological transport mechanisms.4,5 More recently, BLMs have been utilized as matrices for supporting size-quantized semiconductor and magnetic particles which mimic bulk photoelectrical and magneto-optical devices.6,7 Continued utilization of BLMs for biophysical and solid-state modeling requires an understanding of their physical-mechanical properties.
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Todorov, A.T., Petrov, A.G., Brandt, M.O., Picard, G., Denicourt, N., Fendler, J.H. (1992). Interferometric Investigations of Bilayer Lipid Membrane Deformation and Flexoelectricity. In: Schnur, J.M., Peckerar, M., Stratton, H.M. (eds) Synthetic Microstructures in Biological Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1630-3_15
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