Watching individual molecules flex within lipid membranes using SERS

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Taylor, Richard W ^a   Benz, Felix ^a   Sigle, Daniel O ^a   Bowman, Richard W ^a   Bao, Peng ^b   Roth, Johannes S ^b   Heath, George R ^b   Evans, Stephen D ^b   Baumberg, Jeremy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,2-DIOLEOYLOXY-3-(TRIMETHYLAMMONIUM)PROPANE; 1-PALMITOYL-2-OLEOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; GOLD; LIPID BILAYER; METAL NANOPARTICLE; MONOUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

CHEMISTRY; LIPID BILAYER; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

FATTY ACIDS, MONOUNSATURATED; GOLD; LIPID BILAYERS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 84905979550     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05940     Document Type: Article

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