Does anyone have a protocol for coating microscope slides with lipids?

18 May 2017 1 8K Report

Hi all --

We are hoping to coat microscope slides in the lipid DOPC. Does anyone have protocol for this?

Thanks for the reference Volodymyr. Do you know if the stream of nitrogen gas is required if the lipid is ordered as a powder (instead of under chloroform)?

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