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Sealing and Opening Porous Monolayer Vesicle Membranes
Author(s) -
Fuhrhop JürgenHinrich,
Liman Ulrich,
David Hans Hermann
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.198503391
Subject(s) - vesicle , membrane , monolayer , monensin , porosity , chemistry , chemical engineering , materials science , nanotechnology , organic chemistry , biochemistry , engineering
A sealed vessel of molecular dimensions, which can be opened upon acidification, is formed by a synthetic vesicle whose pores can be reversibly sealed with a “stopper” 1 . A prerequisite for the sealing was the use of a membrane composed of an uncharged bolaamphiphile and the pore‐forming monensin pyromellitate.