Investigations of atomic and intermediate-range structure in model membranes

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This proposals aims to investigate the atomic and intermediate range structure in model membrane environments. By beginning with a disperse system of a phosphocholine lipid in hexane solutions we propose to measure the structure of this lipid in a membrane-like environment as hexane is similar to the inner layer of a lipid membrane in nature. Further we propose to add water to these systems, leading to the formation of larger structures, either reverse micelles with smaller water quantities or a gel upon the addition of larger amounts of water. Investigations into these systems will allow for a better understand of the hydration of the phophocholine lipid in a membrane and all help to investigate the association between lipid molecules in solution which lead to the formation of larger scale structures.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24089229
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24089229
Provenance
Creator Dr Sylvia McLain; Dr Sebastian Busch; Mr Gareth Morgan
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-07-10T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-06-06T11:16:43Z