Archaea Analogue Thiolipids for Tethered Bilayer Lipid Membranes on Ultrasmooth Gold Surfaces

A Cholesterol-Based Tether for Creating

A Cholesterol-Based Tether for Creating Photopatterned Lipid Membrane Arrays on both a Silica and Gold Surface

✍ Xiaojun Han; Ammathnadu S. Achalkumar; Richard J. Bushby; Stephen D. Evans 📂 Article 📅 2009 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 490 KB

## Abstract **Surfing gold and silica!** A new cholesterol‐based tether was attached to both amine‐functionalised silica and gold surfaces. The resultant self‐assembled monolayers, which can be deep‐UV‐patterned, were used in attaching essentially equivalent patterned supported lipid bilayers both