title: Nature of the gel to liquid crystal transition of synthetic phosphatidylcholines.
abstract: High sensitivity differential scanning calorimetry is employed in the study of the gel to liquid crystal phase transition of a highly purified sample of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine in multilamellar bilayer suspension. It is concluded from the calorimetric data that the purity of the sample is better than 99.94 mol % and that the transition closely approximates an isothermal first-order transition.
mesh_terms: D002151:Calorimetry; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002627:Chemistry, Physical; D005782:Gels; D011663:Pulmonary Surfactants; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D005782:Gels; D011663:Pulmonary Surfactants