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Photo-induced destruction of giant vesicles in methylene blue solutions
Wilker Caetano1, Paula S Haddad, Rosangela Itri
1Institut Charles Sadron, UP22 CNRS ULP, 67083 Strasbourg Cedex, France. wilker@fct.unesp.br
Langmuir : the ACS Journal of Surfaces and Colloids
|January 24, 2007
Abstract:
We study the photodecomposition of phospholipid bilayers in aqueous solutions of methylene blue. Observation of giant unilamellar vesicles under an optical microscope reveals a consistent pattern of membrane disruption as a function of methylene blue concentration and photon density for different substrates supporting the vesicles.
