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Liposome adhesion at mercury electrodes

Significance of adhesion phenomena in single particle-electrode interaction became apparent since the discovery of adhesion signals of vesicles in seawater samples at a mercury electrode. By potentiostatic control of surface charge and tension, the adhesion forces can be fine tuned to study the interplay of complex forces involved in soft particle-electrode double-layer interactions. After studies of adhesion signals of nonpolar hydrocarbons and of negatively charged living cells (unicellular algae) we focus here on lipid vesicles (liposomes), the classical model in studying physical mechanisms of cell adhesion.

liposome adhesion; single particle detection at dropping mercury electrode; adhesion signals; surface charge density

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