F. CIUCHI

The canal method has been employed to measure the in-plane steady shear viscosity of monolayers of bolaform lipids extracted from the membrane of the thermophilic microorganism Sulfolobus solfataricus. Monolayers were formed with the polar lipid extract (PLE), which is a mixture of several bolaform lipids, each one endowed with two...

Self-assembled multilayers of stearic acid were obtained by evaporating a drop of stearic acid dissolved in organic solvent onto a cleaned glass slide. X-ray diffraction and scanning force microscopy (SFM) were used to determine the bulk structure and to study the surface at molecular level. In samples prepared from decane solution, at least...