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Biophysical Journal 63: 1455-1461 (1992)
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Rod-like cholesterol micelles in aqueous solution studied using polarized and depolarized dynamic light scattering.

M A Castanho, W Brown and M J Prieto

Centro de Quimica Fisica Molecular, Lisboa, Portugal.

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Micelles of cholesterol in aqueous solution have been investigated using polarized and depolarized dynamic light scattering. They are shown to be highly extended and characterized by a narrow size distribution. It is shown that a rod-like model is applicable with length, L = 580 nm. Determination of the rotational diffusion coefficient by analysis of the autocorrelation function gave a value of theta = 150 s-1, which is close to the calculated value for the rod with this dimension. Depolarized dynamic light scattering measurements as a function of angle gave a value of 110 s-1.




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