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Well-ordered multilayer systems of dipalmitoyl lecithin and water containing enough material for X-ray diffraction were prepared. They consisted of 100 subsystems alternating with mylar films, each film and subsystem being 5 μm thick. The tilt of the hydrocarbon chains away from the layer normal was measured in the water-saturated gel phase (LA) as a function of temperature. The angle varied between 15° and 8° with the maximum at 10°C. The tilt was directed along one of the basic vectors of the quasihexagonal lattice of the hydrocarbon chains.
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Hentschel, M., Hosemann, R., Helfrich, W. (1980). Direct X-Ray Study of the Molecular Tilt in Dipalmitoy Lecithin Bilayers. In: Helfrich, W., Heppke, G. (eds) Liquid Crystals of One- and Two-Dimensional Order. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67848-6_78
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