Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) is an optical technique that is widely gaining recognition
as a valuable tool to investigate biological interactions. SPR offers real time in situ analysis …

Self‐assembled monolayers (SAMs) are excellent models for studying interfacial reactions.
Here monolayer chemistry is reviewed, focusing on the features that have no analogues in …

Organic electrochemistry is concerned with the reduction and oxidation of organic molecules
at electrodes. Although it is now more than 200 years ago that the so-called Volta pile was …

The molecular level details of the displacement of surface adsorbed fibrinogen from silica
substrates were studied by atomic force microscopy, immunochemical assays, fluorescence …

Supported planar lipid bilayers based on alkanethiol-tethering chemistry are becoming
increasingly important biomimetic materials. Hybrid bilayers containing thiol-derivatized …

Tethered bilayer lipid membranes (tBLMs) mimick the biological cytoplasmic membrane and
are promising tools for basic research and biosensor applications. They comprise a lipid …

A new concept of solid-supported tethered bilayer lipid membrane (tBLM) for the functional
incorporation of membrane proteins is introduced. The incorporated protein itself acts as the …

Tethered lipid bilayers (tBLMs) were obtained by the fusion of liposomes from
diphytanoylphosphatidylcholine (DPhyPC) with self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of a …

Supported lipid bilayers are widely used as model systems due to their robustness. Due to
the solid support, the properties of supported lipid bilayers are different from those of …

The adsorption of phosphatidylcholine (PC) vesicles (30, 50, and 100 nm nominal
diameters) and of dye-labeled PC vesicles (labeled with 6% Texas Red fluorophore (TR) …