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Table of Contents

Abstract                                                                                    iii

Acknowledgements                                                         iv

ListofFigures                                                                  vii

Chapter 1     Introduction

1.1 Scope and layout of this thesis                                 1

1.2 Lipid bilayer membranes                                    1

1.3 Membraneelectrostatics                                   4

1.4 AtomicForceMicroscopy                              6

1.5 MembraneelectrostaticswithAFM                       9

1.6 Electrostaticdoublelayerforceandchargeregulation        11

1.7 Chargeregulationatlipidinterfaces                          12

Chapter 2    Quantitative Membranes electrostatics with AFM

2.1 Introduction                                                   13

2.2 Materials and methods

2.2.1  Preparation of DOPC:DOPS supported            15

lipid membranes

2.2.2  Forcecurveacquisitionandanalysis               16

2.2.3  Tip charge density measurement                  17

2.2.4  Tipradiusandspringconstantmeasurement       18

2.2.4  FiniteElementModeling                        18

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