bilayer

[ bahy-ley-er ]

noun

, Biochemistry.

1. a structure composed of two molecular layers, especially of phospholipids in cellular membranes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bilayer¹

First recorded in 1960–65; bi- ¹ + layer

Example Sentences

Shuang Wu, a postdoctoral researcher in Zhu's lab, said the lab's previous work used the stretchable heater for continuously bending a bilayer structure.

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"How the interfaces of the bilayer align with each other and through what mechanism they transform into a different configuration is very important," Zhang says.

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"It controls the properties of the entire bilayer system which, in turn, affects both its nanoscale and microscopic behavior."

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"But what we found, actually, is it has a nucleus -- a localized nanoscale aligned domain -- and this domain grows larger and larger in size. Given the correct conditions, this aligned domain could take over the entire size of the bilayer."

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They first encapsulated the twisted bilayer in graphene, essentially building a little reaction chamber around it, to look at the bilayer at atomic resolution as it was heated.

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