“…Bicelles, which possess both low- and high- curvature regions within a bilayer disks, represent a class of model membranes used in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) structural studies of membrane biomolecules [41] , [54] , [55] , [56] , but they have found additional applications in biomedical sciences [57] , [58] , [59] . The bicellar templates were utilized previously to control the growth of platinum with ascorbic acid as a reducer, producing metal nanodisks and nanowheels [60] , [61] . Other phospholipid structures, like spherical liposomes, were also used for gold deposition to assemble biodegradable plasmon resonant nanoshells, which were used for the laser-induced release of molecules encapsulated into these liposomes [62] , [63] , [64] .…”