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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 28.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2010 Dec 9;13(4):1368–1378. doi: 10.1039/c0cp00430h

Table 1.

Summary of structural and dynamical properties of the lipid bilayer as a function of area-per-lipid

Bilayer property Area-per-lipid, α/nm2
0.635 0.650 0.675 0.687 0.700 0.725 0.750 S.E.a
Surface tension/mN m−1 −2.62 0.86 5.24 6.85 9.19 13.49 15.87 0.32
Volume per lipid/nm3 1.233 1.234 1.236 1.237 1.238 1.239 1.240 0.001
Bilayer thickness/nm 4.20 4.13 4.00 3.94 3.86 3.76 3.63 <0.01
Average trans fraction of chains (%) 76.8 76.5 76 75.9 75.7 75.4 75.2 0.2
End-to-end tail vector angle/° 36 40 43 48 50 53 57 1
Electrostatic potential/mV 615 614 596 608 605 597 589 10
Electrostatic potential barrier/mV 759 770 727 727 722 704 677
Mean square displacement (τ = 200 ps)/Å2 5.41 5.74 6.57 7.00 7.19 8.02 8.85 0.06
Lateral diffusion coefficient/10−12 m2 s−1 8.16 9.35 9.80 11.71 12.16 16.72 23.29 0.72
Rotational relaxation time τ1/ns 0.34 0.30 0.24 0.22 0.21 0.17 0.15 ±0.01b
Rotational relaxation time τ2/ns 3.77 3.57 2.75 2.40 2.23 1.92 1.67 ±0.03b
a

Reported mean standard errors (S.E.) are upper limits of all the simulations.

b

95% confidence intervals obtained from curve-fitting.