Papers Published

1. Dilger, J.P. and McLaughlin, S.G.A. and McIntosh, T.J. and Simon, S.A., The dielectric constant of phospholipid bilayers and the permeability of membranes to ions, Science (USA), vol. 206 no. 4423 (1979), pp. 1196 - 8 .
   (last updated on 2007/04/15)

   Abstract:
   The Born charging equation predicts that the permeability of a phospholipid bilayer membrane to ions should depend markedly on the dielectric constant of the membrane. Increasing the dielectric constant of an artificial bilayer increases its permeability to perchlorate or thiocyanate by a factor of 1000, to a value comparable to that of mitochondrial membranes

   Keywords:
   lipid bilayers;permittivity;