id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_h24uzdg4hrftnf63as25mkmooy Da-Neng Wang Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia's Favorite Son, was a Membrane Biophysicist 2013 5 .pdf application/pdf 3987 338 68 electricity, was also one of the first scientists to seek to understand the properties of oil monolayers on water surfaces. one of his many voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, Franklin observed that oil had a calming effect on waves when poured into experiment with oil, spreading monomolecular films on various bodies of water, and ultimately devised a concept of particle of oil monolayers, which eventually led to the formulation of the contemporary lipid bilayer model of the cell membrane. 1980), Franklin's experiments on oil monolayers were the questions on the water-calming effect of oil that he had been caused the oil to spread on the water surface (4): In contrast, on a water surface, Franklin observed something of oil spreading on a water surface to be ''of great interest Franklin's Oil Monolayer 291 Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia's Favorite Son, was a Membrane Biophysicist Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia's Favorite Son, was a Membrane Biophysicist ./cache/work_h24uzdg4hrftnf63as25mkmooy.pdf ./txt/work_h24uzdg4hrftnf63as25mkmooy.txt