Bilipid membrane phase characterization by reflectance anisotropy spectroscopy (RAS)

P. P. Favero; A. C. Ferraz; Maurício S. Baptista; R. Miotto

doi:10.1117/12.2004755

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19 February 2013 Bilipid membrane phase characterization by reflectance anisotropy spectroscopy (RAS)

P. P. Favero, A. C. Ferraz, Maurício S. Baptista, R. Miotto

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Proceedings Volume 8594, Nanoscale Imaging, Sensing, and Actuation for Biomedical Applications X; 85940O (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2004755
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2013, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

In this work we propose the use of experimental and theoretical reflectance anisotropy spectra (RAS) as a new tool to identify structural and dynamical aspects of the bilipid membrane and its various constituent molecules. The role of geometric details at the atomic level and macroscopic quantities, such as the membrane curvature and tilt for the different gel phases, in the theoretical RAS spectra (using Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT)) are presented. Then the results are compared to the experimentally measured spectra taken from other techniques.

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P. P. Favero, A. C. Ferraz, Maurício S. Baptista, and R. Miotto "Bilipid membrane phase characterization by reflectance anisotropy spectroscopy (RAS)", Proc. SPIE 8594, Nanoscale Imaging, Sensing, and Actuation for Biomedical Applications X, 85940O (19 February 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2004755

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