Floating Bilayers Deposited on Au / Fe Surfaces

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There is currly great interest in the use of neutron reflection to study model bilayers. We have produced a model membrane system that is strongly associated with the substrate, but separated from it by a hydration layer, so that the bilayer is not adversely affected by frictional effects. This so called 'free supported bilayer' (FSB) bilayer is fabricated on a Silicon substrate, and there have been several enquiries from the ISIS user community about the posibillity of fabricating FSB's on gold. The Silicon system is anchored by a SAM made using trimethoxysilanes. To use the same system on Au, we propose replacing the silane with a thiol. We will fabricate the FSB on an Au layer, with an Fe layer between the Au and the substrate. This will allow the system to be studied at two contrasts using polarised neutrons without the need to exchange the solvent.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24067345
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24067345
Provenance
Creator Dr Stephen Roser; Dr Rob Barker; Dr Stephen Holt; Dr Arwel Hughes
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-03-23T08:53:35Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-06-15T08:37:22Z