Formation and properties of phospholipid bilayers on fluorine doped tin oxide electrodes

Commercially available fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO) films on glass were functionalized by the octadecyltrichlorosilane (OTS) self-assembled monolayers (SAM), which upon exposure to a multilamellar phospholipid vesicle solutions trigger vesicle fusion and formation of a tethered phospholipid bilayer membrane (tBLM). The formation of tBLMs was monitored in real-time by the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) electrochemical impedance spectroscopy...