[Short review on Raman spectroscopy application to the study of membrane model systems (author's transl)]

It has been speculated that increased knowledge about mobility in the lipid fatty acid chains of biomembranes would lead to an understanding of the significance of the lipids in determining membrane properties. This paper is aimed to summarize some expressive results provided from Raman spectroscopy, which indicate that molecular vibrationscan be a sensitive probe of order in the fatty acid chains.