The ability to obtain a molecular-level understanding of the chemistry that takes place at
liquid/solid interfaces is key to the development and improvement of many chemical and …

The controlled transfer of organized monolayers of amphiphilic molecules from the air-water
interface to a solid substrate was the first molecular-scale technology for the creation of new …

Based on broad and detailed evidence from a large variety of experiments on several
polymer systems carried out by other authors and ourselves, a novel concept for …

This is the first controlled release study performed using a new material, namely, biphasic
polymer hydrogels. The uptake and release of tryptophan and theophylline were …

Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films occupy a unique niche at the crossroads of materials science,
complex fluids, and biophysics. They have many similarities to inorganic epitaxial films due …

Cellular membranes are complex structures and simplified analogues in the form of model
membranes or biomembranes are used as platforms to understand fundamental properties …

We have used self-assembled purines and pyrimidines on planar gold surfaces and on gold-
coated atomic force microscope (AFM) tips to directly probe intermolecular hydrogen bonds …

The thermodynamics of small systems, together with simple molecular packing and
energetic considerations, previously applied to self-assembling surfactant aggregates in …

Properties of single fluorescence-labeled lipids in a fluid phospholipid membrane were
analyzed using sensitive fluorescence microscopy. The high signal-to-noise ratio for …

This review is focused on the atomic force microscopy (AFM) capabilities to study the
properties of protein biomolecules and to detect the proteins in solution. The possibilities of …