Electrically insulating pore-suspending membranes on highly ordered porous obtained from vesicle spreading.

Schmitt, Eva K; Nurnabi, Mohammad; Bushby, Richard J; Steinem, Claudia · Soft Matter · 2008

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Pore-suspending membranes on porous alumina substrates with pore diameters of 60 nm were prepared by fusion of vesicles on a (cholesterylpolyethylenoxy)thiol-functionalized surface, and their functionality demonstrated by the activity of the proton pump bacteriorhodopsin.