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Ultrafast Electron Crystallography of Phospholipids
Author(s) -
Chen Songye,
Seidel Marco T.,
Zewail Ahmed H.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200601778
Subject(s) - monolayer , ultrashort pulse , femtosecond , bilayer , electron crystallography , ultrafast electron diffraction , chemical physics , crystallography , materials science , substrate (aquarium) , electron , femtochemistry , jump , electron diffraction , transient (computer programming) , chemistry , nanotechnology , diffraction , optics , physics , biochemistry , oceanography , quantum mechanics , membrane , geology , computer science , operating system , laser
The structure and dynamics of monolayer and bilayer (see picture) phospholipids have been studied with spatiotemporal resolutions by ultrafast electron crystallography. The expansion and restructuring of the chains were observed after a femtosecond temperature jump in the substrate, and a transient structural ordering was revealed. The atomic forces were identified to be coherent in the non‐equilibrium state of the assembly.