Systems & Techniques Below you will find details about the main systems (GUVs, LUVs, SUVs, supported bilayers, polymers, (...)
Confocal Microscopy We use confocal microscopy to image the distribution of fluorescent molecules in the vesicle membrane. (...)
Electroporation We use an electroporation device, Orbit-mini from Nanion. It is a planar lipid bilayers system, usually (...)
Ellipsometry and Light reflectivity We perform Ellipsometry and Light Reflectivity at solid-gas, solid-liquid, liquid-gas and liquid-liquid (...)
FRAPP (Fluorescence Recovery After Patterned Photobleaching) Fluorescence Recovery After Patterned Photobleaching is a well-known techniques to measure diffusion (...)
Isothermal titration calorimetry The nano-ITC from Waters (previously TA-Instruments) is the 1 mL model. It enables to measure the heat (...)
MD computer simulations We perform Molecular dynamics (MD), which is a computational method that calculates the time dependent (...)
Micropipette suction apparatus The micropipette suction technique enables to apply aspiration pressures to soft objects suspended in a (...)
Neutrons and X-rays scattering In close collaboration with G. Fragneto (ILL, Grenoble) and J. Daillant (LIONS, CEA, Saclay) we develop (...)
Optical Tweezers Modular Optical Tweezers (Thorlabs) provide users with a tool for trapping and manipulating (...)
Phospholipid Vesicles Phospholipids, a major component of cell membranes, are amphiphilic molecules. As a consequence they (...)
Reflection Interference Contrast Microscopy (RICM) RICM = Reflexion Interference Contrast Microscopy. RICM is an interferometric technique suited to (...)