Figure 4. Optical and FL imaging of compressed bilayers in the SFA.
Simultaneous monitoring of the FECO (a,d,g,j), normal optical microscope showing Newton's rings (c) and lipid domain localization (f,i,l) using FL-SFA before and during the contact time of FR4 (see Fig. 3b), and their schematics (b,e,h,k). (a–c) Bare mica–mica contact; (d–f) two bilayers before FR2; (g–i) hemifused bilayers right after high compression; and (j–l) hemifused bilayers at tc∼70 min.