@bachelorsthesis{1996B,
  title={Dependence of molecular order in model membranes on the position of the double-bond: a deuterium NMR study},
  author={Curtis Bausmer},
  month={May},
  year={1996},
  abstract={Model membrane systems made up of mono-unsaturated phospholipids
exhibit a dramatic dependence of their thermodynamic properties in the position
of the double bond within the fatty acid chains of the phospholipid
molecules. In particular, a minimum is observed in both the structural (L<sub>alpha</sub> -
H<sub>II</sub>) phase transition temperature (Epand, E. (1996)) and in the
chain-melting (gel to liquid crystalline) phase transition temperature, when the
double bond is at carbon 9 of an 18-carbon long fatty acid chain.  These
results were obtained using x-ray and differential calorimetry data.
This report investigates the effects of shifting the double-bond
position on the molecular order within the phospholipid molecules, as observed
by Deuterium NMR.  The initial study showed, somewhat surprisingly, that
the effect is not significant in the H<sub>II</sub> phase.  The limitations of
obtaining order parameter profiles via a perdeuterated alcohol probe precluded
a further investigation in the La phase.},
  note={Supervised by E. Sternin}
}