NanoScience Colloquium by Prof Giovanna Fragneto (Science Director at ESS)

The understanding of the function of cellular membranes requires the study of their structure and dynamics. 

Cellular membranes are complex assemblies of lipids and proteins. In particular, the lipid scaffold is composed by a large variety of lipid species and levels of chain unsaturation, often difficult to synthesise chemically. 

Because of this complexity, model membrane systems from simple lipid bilayers are often used for fundamental studies and those can profit from probes able to access different scales of size and time like thermal neutrons and synchrotron radiation.

Link to abstract: G Fragneto 20250515