Eur. Phys. J. B 1, 399-400 (1998)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510050201

Comment on "Growth of Molecular Superlattice in Fully Hydrated Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine during Subgel Phase Formation Process" by H. Takahashi, K. Hatta and I. Hatta

¹ Departments of Physics and Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
² Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8603, Japan

Corresponding author: ^a nagle@andrew.cmu.edu

Received: 11 December 1997
Accepted: 28 January 1998
Published online: 15 February 1998

Abstract

This comment shows that data recently reported [CITE] as being seemingly in conflict with earlier data [CITE] are, in fact, in excellent agreement. Together, both studies confirm that the kinetics of the subgel phase transformation in dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) lipid bilayers obeys Kolmogorov-Avrami (K-A) theory [CITE] with an anomalously low effective dimensionality.