In close collaboration with G. Fragneto (ILL, Grenoble) and J. Daillant (LIONS, CEA, Saclay) we develop both specular reflectivity and off-specular reflectivity experiments using Neutrons and X-rays to investigate physical properties of thin films at liquid/air or liquid/solid interface.
Some related articles:
- T. Charitat, E. Bellet-Amalric, G. Fragneto, and F. Graner, Adsorbed and free lipid bilayers at the solid-liquid interface, European Physic Journal B, 8, 583-593 (1999)
- G. Fragneto, T.Charitat, F. Graner, K. Mecke, L. Périno-Gallice, and E. Bellet-Amalric, A Fluid Floating Bilayers, Europhysic Letters, 53, 100-106 (2001).
- G. Fragneto, F. Graner, T. Charitat, P. Dubos, and E. Bellet-Amalric, Interaction of the Third Helix of Antennapedia Homeodomain with a Deposited Phospholipid Bilayer : A Neutron Reflectivity Structural Study, Langmuir, 16, 4581-4588 (2000).
- Daillant, J.; Bellet-Amalric, E.; Braslau, A.; Charitat, T.; Fragneto, G.; Graner, F.; Mora, S.; Rieutord, F.; Stidder, B., Structure and fluctuations of a single floating lipid bilayer,PNAS 102, 11639-11644 (2005)
- Malaquin, L.; Charitat, T.; Daillant, J. Supported bilayers: Combined specular and diffuse X-ray scattering European Physical Journal E 31, 285-301 (2010)
- Hemmerle, A.; Malaquin, L.; Charitat, T.; Lecuyer, S.; Fragneto, G.; Daillant, J. Controlling interactions in supported bilayers from weak electrostatic repulsion to high osmotic pressure, PNAS 109, 19938-19942 (2012)
- Charitat, T.; Lecuyer, S.; Fragneto, G. Fluctuations and destabilization of single phospholipid bilayers, Biointerphases, 3 (2008)
- Fragneto, G.; Charitat, T.; Daillant, J. Floating lipid bilayers: models for physics and biology European Biophysics Journal With Biophysics Letters 41 863-874 (2012)
- G. Fragneto, T. Charitat, E. Bellet-Amalric, R. Cubitt, and F. Graner, Swelling of phospholipid floating bilayers: the effect of chain length, Langmuir, 19, 7695-7702 (2003).
- S. Lecuyer, G. Fragneto, T. Charitat, Effect of an electric field on a floating lipid bilayer: a neutron reflectivity study, European Physical Journal E, 21, 153-159 (2006).