2.3 Results and discussion
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Chapter 3 Mobile Lipid Charge Regulation in Membranes
3.1 Introduction 26
3.2 Experimental method
3.2.1 Preparation of DOPC:DOPS supported lipid 29
membranes
3.2.2 Preparation of DOPC:DOPS:DMPC:DMPS 30
supported lipid membranes
3.2.3 Computationalanalysis 31
3.3 Results
3.3.1 VanderWaalsinteraction 34
3.3.2 Charge regulation due to counterion binding; 35
lipid vs. silicon nitride
3.3.3 Mobilelipidchargeregulation 39
3.3.4 Comparingmobilelipidchargeregulationongel 41
and fluid phase lipids
3.4 Discussion 47
References 51
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