Soft matter materials, such as polymers, membranes, proteins, are often electrically charged.
This makes them water soluble, which is of great importance in technological application …

The hydration force between large molecules or large surfaces is built on weak perturbation
of many solvent molecules. The structure of the surface sets boundary conditions on solvent …

Thylakoid membranes, the universal structure where photosynthesis takes place in all
oxygenic photosynthetic organisms from cyanobacteria to higher plants, have a unique lipid …

Using x-ray diffraction and NMR spectroscopy, we present structural and material properties
of phosphatidylserine (PS) bilayers that may account for the well documented implications of …

Vesicles constitute an interesting morphology formed by self-aggregating amphiphilic
molecules. They exhibit a rich structural variety and are of interest both from a fundamental …

We have determined the mixing properties and lamellar organization of bacterial membrane
mimetics composed of 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-phosphatidylethanolamine (POPE) and …

Mixtures of cationic and anionic surfactants crystallized at various ratios in the absence of
added salt form micrometer-sized colloids. Here, we propose and test a general mechanism …

As a result of their unique physical properties, biological membrane mimetics, such as
liposomes, are used in a broad range of scientific and technological applications …

We have studied the adhesion state (also denoted by docking state) of lipid vesicles as
induced by the divalent ions Ca 2+ or Mg 2+ at well-controlled ion concentration, lipid …

In pure water, zwitterionic lipids form lamellar phases with an equilibrium water gap on the
order of 2 to 3 nm as a result of the dominating van der Waals attraction between dipolar …