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LANGMUIR
Volume 21, Issue 10, Pages 4610-4614Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la046906q
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The local hydrogen-bonding environment of water confined in glycolipid nanotubes (LNTs) was investigated by Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy. Using X-ray diffraction (XRD), we estimated the thickness of an interlamellar water layer, which was confined between the bilayer membranes constructing the walls of the LNTs, to be 1.3 +/- 0.3 nm. FT-IR spectroscopic measurement of the confined water showed an obvious reduction in IR absorption in both the low-energy (around 3000 cm(-1)) and high-energy regions (around 3600 cm(-1)) of the OH stretching band as compared to bulk water. The reduction around 3000 cm(-1) indicated a decrease in the relative proportion of the water molecules with a long-range network structure due to a geometrical restriction. This agrees with the results obtained for other multilamellar systems. On the other hand, the remarkable reduction around 3600 cm(-1), which was not observed in the other systems, indicated the absence of weakly hydrogen-bonded water aggregates due to the effect of sugar headgroups.
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