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Charge‐Transfer Processes and Redox Reactions in Planar Lipid Monolayers and Bilayers
Author(s) -
Krysiñki P.,
Tien H. T.,
Ottova A.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
biotechnology progress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.572
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1520-6033
pISSN - 8756-7938
DOI - 10.1021/bp990112y
Subject(s) - monolayer , lipid bilayer , redox , nanotechnology , electron transfer , bilayer , planar , chemistry , chemical physics , membrane , materials science , computer science , photochemistry , organic chemistry , biochemistry , computer graphics (images)
Abstract Supported bilayer lipid membranes (BLMs) and lipid monolayers have been known for quite sometime and are attracting sustained interest since they open new research vista and offer practical approaches in biosensor development and molecular device applications. Central to these areas of interest are electric processes and redox reactions where the movement of ions and electrons plays a pivotal role. In this paper an overview of the major findings in this field is presented. Further, we summarize the work on planar lipid bilayers and monolayers that have been done in the past few years in a number of laboratories. Supported planar BLMs and their closely related systems provide the foundation for a variety of lipid bilayer‐based molecular sensors that are sensitive, versatile, as well as potentially inexpensive (i.e., disposable), and open to all sorts of experimentation.