Preparation of phospholipid multilayer patterns of controlled size and thickness by capillary assembly on a microstructured substrate.
By dragging a phospholipid solution on microstructured silicon surfaces, phospholipid molecules are selectively deposited inside the microstructures to get regular phospholipid multilayer patterns of controlled thickness over a large scale ( approximately cm(2)). By varying the dragging speed, the thickness of the patterns varies between 28 and 100 nm on average (7 to 25 bilayers). Electroswelling of phospholipid multilayer patterns leads to the formation of giant liposomes of controlled size and narrow size distributions.
Diguet
Antoine
A
Department of Chemistry, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.
Le Berre
Maël
M
Chen
Yong
Y
Baigl
Damien
D
D008081:Liposomes; D010316:Particle Size; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000737:chemistry*; D013499:Surface Properties
D008081:Liposomes; D010743:Phospholipids