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American Institute of Physics, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 20(136), p. 204903

DOI: 10.1063/1.4722079

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Emergence of a thread-like pattern with charged phospholipids on an oil/water interface

Journal article published in 2012 by Hiroaki Ito, Miho Yanagisawa, Masatoshi Ichikawa, Kenichi Yoshikawa ORCID
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Abstract

The spontaneous formation of a thread-like pattern with negatively charged lipids on an oil/water interface is reported. An analysis of the time-dependent change at the interface observed by fluorescence microscopy revealed that the thread-like pattern is generated through a two-step mechanism. First, inverted lipid micelles in the bulk-oil phase gradually diffuse onto the oil/water interface. Next, the micelles are adsorbed on the interface and self-assemble to form the thread-like pattern. The essential characteristics of this pattern formation are theoretically reproduced by a simple Monte Carlo simulation that takes into account the kinetics in the coalescence of charged micelles on a 2D interface.