In light of the considerable impact synthetic 2D polymers are expected to have on many
fundamental and applied aspects of the natural and engineering sciences, it is surprising …

Lipid-bilayer membranes supported on solid substrates are widely used as cell-surface
models that connect biological and artificial materials. They can be placed either directly on …

Sensitive and selective biosensors for high‐throughput screening are having an increasing
impact in modern medical care. The establishment of robust protein biosensing platforms …

The adsorption of phosphatidylcholine (PC) vesicles (30, 50, and 100 nm nominal
diameters) and of dye-labeled PC vesicles (labeled with 6% Texas Red fluorophore (TR) …

Polydiacetylenes (PDAs), a family of highly π‐conjugated polymers, have unique
characteristics associated with their ability to self‐assemble. Disruption of the extensively …

Phospholipid bilayer membranes at the interface between a substrate and an aqueous
phase, supported by or tethered to the solid surface via a polymer cushion, a peptide …

Biosensors that make use of transport processes across lipid membranes are very rare even
though a stimulus, the binding of a single analyte molecule, can enhance the sensor …

The molecular analysis of biomolecular-membrane interactions is central to understanding
most cellular systems but has emerged as a complex technical challenge given the …

“Synthetic biology” is a concept that has developed together with, or slightly after,“systems
biology”. But while systems biology aims at the full understanding of large systems by …

Polydiacetylene‐based chemosensors are prepared by assembling liposomes of
diacetylene monomers with terminal amine groups on an aldehyde‐modified glass …