| Reference |
I. G. ,Abidor, V. B. Arakelyan, L V. Chernomordik, Yu. A. Chizmadzhev, V. F. Pastushenko and M. R. Tarasevich, Electric breakdown of bilayer lipid membranes
I. The main experimental facts and their qualitative discussion, Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics 6 (1979) 37-52 doi:10.1016/S0022-0728(79)81006-2 Value is from p.50 3rd paragraph, Range is from p.46 1st paragraph |
| Comments |
"Proceeding from the concepts outlined above, one may attempt to interpret the shape of the oscillograms for the breakdown process (Fig. 2). The analysis starts from the stage of constant current. Let [investigators] estimate the magnitude of current Ip which may pass through a micropore with radius of the order of several Å if the voltage impressed on the membrane is, as in Fig. 2, 400 mV. The specific resistance in a volume of electrolyte solution equals 1O ? cm." "In Fig. 5, the logarithm of mean lifetime, log t, is presented as a function of U for a membrane from general lipids in 0.1 M NaCl solution. As can be seen from the figure, in the potential range 300 to 600mV the U dependence of logt is close to linear, the increase in U by 100mV leading to a tenfold decrease of t." (t=mean lifetime of membrane, U=voltage). For range of 100-450mV see Troiano et al., 1998 PMID 9675188, abstract. |