PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Andrea Ridolfi
AU  - Ben Humphreys
AU  - Lucrezia Caselli
AU  - Costanza Montis
AU  - Tommy Nylander
AU  - Debora Berti
AU  - Marco Brucale
AU  - Francesco Valle
TI  - Exploring the structure and mechanics of thin supported inverse bicontinuous cubic phase lipid films
AID  - 10.1101/2021.03.29.437497
DP  - 2021 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 2021.03.29.437497
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/03/29/2021.03.29.437497.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/03/29/2021.03.29.437497.full
AB  - Inverse bicontinuous cubic phase membranes are ubiquitous in nature but their properties and functions are still not fully understood. To shed light on this topic, we herein realize thin supported cubic phase lipid films, characterize their structure and provide the first study of the mechanical properties of these non-lamellar architectures.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.