Recent developments of the structural study of phospholipid membrane by synchrotron X-ray scattering. II. Oriented multibilayers and monolayers.

Study on well oriented phospholipid multibilayers is important in getting an evidence for their structures in detail because it is possible to assign the X-ray scattering direction and therefore to give the configuration of molecules. Very high resolution X-ray diffraction experiment for oriented multibilayers is accessible using synchrotron X-ray beam. Recently the Bragg peaks reflected by a monolayer were observed by making the best of...