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Label-free spectroscopic detection of vesicles in water using vibrational sum frequency scattering

Strader, Matthew L.
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de Aguiar, Hilton B.
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de Beer, Alex G. F.
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2011
Soft Matter

Vibrational sum frequency scattering (SFS) has been used to study sub-micron, catanionic vesicles in solution. The vesicles were synthesized from a binary mixture of dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide (DTAB) and sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) surfactants in deuterated water, which spontaneously assemble into thermodynamically stable vesicles. The stability of these vesicles is attributed to a surfactant concentration asymmetry between the inner and outer bilayer leaflets. This concentration asymmetry should be observable by SFS due to local inversion symmetry-breaking. The signal corresponding to the symmetric sulfate stretch mode of the SDS head group is observed at 1042 cm(-1), indicating that there is indeed asymmetry in the local structure of the leaflets. The results indicate that it should be possible to measure the interfacial structure of liposomes in aqueous solution and study in situ processes like the binding of sugars and proteins that are important for many processes in biophysical chemistry.

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DOI
10.1039/c0sm01358g
Web of Science ID

WOS:000290227400051

Author(s)
Strader, Matthew L.
de Aguiar, Hilton B.
de Beer, Alex G. F.
Roke, Sylvie  
Date Issued

2011

Published in
Soft Matter
Volume

7

Start page

4959

End page

4963

Subjects

Nonlinear-Optical Spectroscopy

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Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy

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Supported Lipid-Bilayers

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Dodecyl-Sulfate Sds

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Generation Spectroscopy

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2Nd-Harmonic Generation

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Air-Water

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Phospholipid Monolayers

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Langmuir Monolayers

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Particle-Size

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December 16, 2011
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/74142
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