Sławomir Kalinowski - PhD thesis



Influence of polarization potential on capacitance of bilayer lipid membranes, Warsaw University, Department of Chemistry, Warsaw, 1997

Important day



Contents:

Review of literature

  • History of investigations of membrane phenomena
  • Structure of biomembranes and artificial bilayer lipid membranes
  • Components of lipid membranes and their properties
  • Physicochemical properties of bilayer lipid membranes
  • Capacitance of lipid membranes
  • Methods for measurement of membrane capacitance
  • Application of membrane capacitance measurements
Experimantal part
  • Measurement equipment
  • Chemicals and solutions
  • Method for formation of the membranes
  • Studies of membrane formation process
  • Effect of membrane area on specific capacitance of membranes
  • Influence of polarization potential on membrane capacitance
  • Investigations of capacitance minimum potential
  • Application of chronopotentiometry in studies of membrane phenomena
  • Summary