Single-component supported lipid bilayers probed using broadband nonlinear optics

• Published in: Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP Vol. 20; no. 5; pp. 3063 - 3072
• Main Authors: Olenick, Laura L., Chase, Hilary M., Fu, Li, Zhang, Yun, McGeachy, Alicia C., Dogangun, Merve, Walter, Stephanie R., Wang, Hong-fei, Geiger, Franz M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Royal Society of Chemistry 07.02.2018
• Subjects: Broadband; Deuteration; Infrared radiation; Interference; Lipids; Nonlinear optics; Oscillators; Phase transitions; Spectra; Spectrum analysis

Broadband SFG spectroscopy is shown to offer considerable advantages over scanning systems in terms of signal-to-noise ratios when probing well-formed single-component supported lipid bilayers formed from zwitterionic lipids with PC headgroups. The SFG spectra obtained from bilayers formed from DOPC...