Aqueous Ionic Liquid Mixtures as Minimal Models of Lipid Bilayer Membranes
Jonas Volmer,
Ulrike Cerajewski,
Marie Alfes
et al.
Abstract:We introduce aqueous
ionic liquid (IL) mixtures, specifically mixtures
of 1-butyl-3-imidazoliumtetrafluoroborate (BMImBF4), with
water as a minimal model of lipid bilayer membranes. Imidazolium-based
ILs are known to form clustered nanoscale structures in which local
inhomogeneities, micellar or lamellar structures, are formed to shield
hydrophobic parts of the cation from the polar cosolvent (water).
To investigate these nanostructures, dynamic light scattering (DLS)
on samples with different mixing ratios of… Show more
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