MEMBRANE  BIOPHYSICS
 AS VIEWED FROM EXPERIMENTAL BILAYER
LIPID MEMBRANES
(Planar Lipid Bilayers and Spherical Liposomes)

Published by Elsevier Science, Amsterdam and New York, 2000, 648 pp.



Chapter 6

Membrane Electrochemistry

“… Almost all interfaces are electrified. The key concept to describe these electrified interfaces is the electrochemical potential, ? , an extension of which leads to the Nernst-Planck equation ? the crux of membrane electrochemistry”

6.1    Introduction
6.2    Interfacial Electrochemistry
            Electrical Double Layer Theory
6.3    The Nernst-Planck Equation
6.4    Transmembrane Potentials and BLMs
            Measurements of Planar Lipid Bilayer Potentials
            Basics of cyclic voltammetry
6.6    Electronic Processes in Membranes
            Evidence for electronic processes
            Electron-conducting BLMs
6.7    Summary of BLM and Liposome Experiments
 

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