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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 13.
Published in final edited form as: Methods Mol Biol. 2018;1814:129–143. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8591-3_8

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Proposed formation process of phospholipids onto mica surface. (a) Deposition/adhesion, vesicles deposit onto mica over time; (b) rupture, vesicles rupture and form patches; (c) coalescence of lipid patches; adjacent lipid patches merge to form larger patches while some vesicles are trapped; (d) completion, trapped vesicles and vesicles from solution fix the SLB, resulting in homogenous SLB. Objects are out of scale. Water layer between SLB and mica surface is omitted for simplicity. The chemical structure of POPC is shown at the bottom