“…Individual regions of phospholipid bilayers are difficult to access experimentally, especially in biological membranes. Various organic solvents, imitating the bilayers differing in lipid composition, packing, and hydration levels, have been examined as membrane or bilayer surrogates, with the objective of obtaining thermodynamic or kinetic information on the partitioning process. ,,,,,– Curiously, air was also used as the surrogate phase imitating the nonpolar hydrocarbon core of the bilayer. The measurements of the surface pressure of chemicals at the air/water interface have been miniaturized and adapted for a high throughput .…”