Figure 1.

(a) Epiflorescence image of the top surface of a multi component lipid multilayers doped with 0.03 mol% of Rhodamine which partition preferebly with L_d domains. Scale bar is 100 μm; (b) Atomic force microscopy image of the multilayer cleraly shows the aligned domains; (c1,c2) Entropy favors the randome distribusion of the domains in different bilayers of the multilayer as shown in panel (c1); However, the inter-layer couling competes with entropy to align the domains. More coupling strengh lead to more complete alignmnet (c2,c3).