title: Preparation of phospholipid multilayer patterns of controlled size and thickness by capillary assembly on a microstructured substrate.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Antoine
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Diguet
authors.forename: Maël
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Le Berre
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Damien
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Baigl
mesh_terms: D008081:Liposomes; D010316:Particle Size; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000737:chemistry*; D013499:Surface Properties
chemical_list: D008081:Liposomes; D010743:Phospholipids