title: Energetics of the Phase Transition in Free-Standing versus Supported Lipid Membranes.
abstract: We compared the thermodynamic behavior of supported and free-standing films of phospholipids with different chain length and showed that the change in free energy for the phase transition to a denser state was greater in free-standing than in supported membranes, with the differences being independent of the chain length. The presence of the support promoted a decrease in the energy gap between the coexisting phases of 1.7 kJ mol(-1), and this was a long-range effect affecting both leaflets, probably related with the impediment of out-of-plane motion of the film by the solid surface.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Investigaciones en Química Biológica de Córdoba (CIQUIBIC, UNC-CONICET), Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Haya de la Torre y Medina Allende, Ciudad Universitaria, X5000HUA Córdoba, Argentina.
authors.forename: Agustín
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mangiarotti
authors.affiliation: Centro de Investigaciones en Química Biológica de Córdoba (CIQUIBIC, UNC-CONICET), Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Haya de la Torre y Medina Allende, Ciudad Universitaria, X5000HUA Córdoba, Argentina.
authors.forename: Natalia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Wilke
mesh_terms: D008567:Membranes, Artificial; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D008567:Membranes, Artificial; D010743:Phospholipids