Talk:Lipid bilayer

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What cellular structure is composed of a lipid bilayer?

All cell membrane's consist of a lipid bilayer. It is not so explicit in the article, but it should be. --Lexor 01:55, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Should this article be merged together with other similar structures to "lipid aggregates"? --Eleassar777 15:07, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

I think it should not Karol 15:30, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

Why not? Or lipid structures? --Eleassar777 16:26, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Well, I just think that lipid bilayers are recognized as being so different than ex. micelles (maybe that's just my bias as a biophysicist) and monolayers. Also, large lipid vesicles for example consist of bilayers, so they are not bilayers, but a specific architecture for bilayers, which can be planar or closed surfaces. That said, I very much agree that there should be more information on lipid aggregate structures - as a section in the page on lipids or as a new article (although I think the first option is better). I would happily do this myself, but I'm working on a different topic just now. Karol 17:06, May 24, 2005 (UTC) P.S. look: the lipid page has something on aggregates already that could evolve into a section maybe

Model Over an aperture between two aqueous solutions, where it is called a black BLM.

Huh? This doesn't make sense. --mgambrell 20:32, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

This whole article is terrible, very poorly written. I've tried to address some of the problems, but it needs some serious work. Maybe it should be entirely re-written from scratch ----fraybentos 11:32, 14 Nov 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bimolecular layer?

Is a lipid bilayer also called a bimolecular layer? -Velen117 08:11, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fluidity

No one has mentioned the fluidity of the membrane, the fact that each phospholipid molecule swaps positions with its neighbour 10 million times a second!