Electric Gradient Field Applied to Lipid Monolayers - Membrane

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Acknowledgement
I wish to thank all the members of our Biomembrane Biophysics Group at the Niels Bohr
Institute, especially K. Sigmundson for his encouraging stimulation and comments, A.
Blicher for discussions and optimism. M. Gudman for having designed and build the
combined Langmuir trough and fluorescence microscopy setup at Niels Bohr Institute and
introduced me to the technique. Thanks to the electronic department and the workshop
Without my supervisor T. Heimburg and his innovatory theory and ideas of propagation
of impulses in nerves I would not have explored this field. His door was ≈ always open.