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 (...)

Fluorescence Microscopy

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 (...)

Supported and Floating Bilayers

see the section: Supported bilayers