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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Phys Chem B. 2008 Jul 12;112(31):9337–9345. doi: 10.1021/jp801377a

TABLE 3.

Area Occupied by the Dendrimers on the Lipid Bilayer, Analyzed as the Average Area They Shadow or as the Average Area of the Smallest Circle Which Inscribes the Dendrimer Projected onto the Bilayer Planea

area of dendrimer footprint (nm2) area of inscribing circle (nm2)
G3–NH3+ 9.6 14.9
G3–Ac 8.2 9.4
G3–COO 7.9 10.4
a

The standard deviation of observed areas was 2% for the footprints and 6% for the inscribing circles.