Reflectometry at the Brewster angle and Brewster angle microscopy at the air-water interface

Hönig, Dirk; Möbius, Dietmar

doi:10.1016/0040-6090(92)90169-c

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“…The CCD camera converts the reflectivity signal from the sample into a video image. The spatial resolution is approximately 2 m. Principles and detailed description of BAM have been described elsewhere (Hönig and Möbius, 1992;Rodríguez Patino et al, 1999). Characteristics and operational conditions of the device followed that of previous work (Gonçalves da Silva et al, 2003).…”

Section: Brewster Angle Microscopymentioning

confidence: 99%

Mixed monolayers involving DPPC, DODAB and oleic acid and their interaction with nicotinic acid at the air–water interface

Silva¹,

Romão²

2005

Chemistry and Physics of Lipids

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Section: Brewster Angle Microscopymentioning

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Mixed monolayers involving DPPC, DODAB and oleic acid and their interaction with nicotinic acid at the air–water interface

Silva¹,

Romão²

2005

Chemistry and Physics of Lipids

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“…Besides employing fluorescent lipid probes [290], the monolayer topography can be observed by BAM, a noninvasive technique which gains contrast from differences of reflectivity among the different phases [291,292] whereon information about the relative film optical thickness can be obtained [91,96,293]. More absolute values can be gained from ellipsometric measurements on myelin monolayers [294].…”

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Composition-driven Surface Domain Structuring Mediated by Sphingolipids and Membrane-active Proteins

Maggio

Borioli

Boca

et al. 2007

Cell Biochem Biophys

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Biomembranes contain a wide variety of lipids and proteins within an essentially two-dimensional structure. The coexistence of such a large number of molecular species causes local tensions that frequently relax into a phase or compositional immiscibility along the lateral and transverse planes of the interface. As a consequence, a substantial microheterogeneity of the surface topography develops and that depends not only on the lipid-protein composition, but also on the lateral and transverse tensions generated as a consequence of molecular interactions. The presence of proteins, and immiscibility among lipids, constitute major perturbing factors for the membrane sculpturing both in terms of its surface topography and dynamics. In this work, we will summarize some recent evidences for the involvement of membrane-associated, both extrinsic and amphitropic, proteins as well as membrane-active phosphohydrolytic enzymes and sphingolipids in driving lateral segregation of phase domains thus determining long-range surface topography.

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“…BAM is based on the principles of reflection spectroscopy [75][76][77][78]. At the air-water interface, a parallel (p) polarised laser beam at Brewster angle of incidence has zero reflectance, whereas the presence of a condensed monolayer phase leads to a change in the refractive index and thus, to a measurable change in reflectivity.…”

Section: Brewster Angle Microscopy (Bam)mentioning

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Phases and phase transition in insoluble and adsorbed monolayers of amide amphiphiles: Specific Characteristics of the condensed phases

Vollhardt

2015

Advances in Colloid and Interface Science

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Reflectometry at the Brewster angle and Brewster angle microscopy at the air-water interface

Cited by 157 publications

References 6 publications

Mixed monolayers involving DPPC, DODAB and oleic acid and their interaction with nicotinic acid at the air–water interface

Mixed monolayers involving DPPC, DODAB and oleic acid and their interaction with nicotinic acid at the air–water interface

Composition-driven Surface Domain Structuring Mediated by Sphingolipids and Membrane-active Proteins

Phases and phase transition in insoluble and adsorbed monolayers of amide amphiphiles: Specific Characteristics of the condensed phases

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