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A
10 8
10 7
10 6
10 5
10 4
10 -3
10 -1
10 1
10 3
10 5
f / Hz
B
10 6
10 5
10 4
10 3
100
200
300
t / h
Figure 4. A) Absolute value of the impedance | Z |( f ) of a
functionalized porous alumina substrate prior the addi-
tion of the vesicle suspension (Ŷ). (Ƒ) depicts the imped-
ance data obtained 30 hours after vesicle addition. The
solid line is the result of a fitting routine using the equiv-
alent circuit shown in Fig. 2 A (inset) with C m = 4 nF and
R m = 82 Mȍ. B) Change in membrane resistance R m as a
function of time as a measure of long-term stability of a
pore-suspending bilayer preparation. After the pore-
suspending membrane had been established, impedance
spectra were taken every hour and the membrane re-
sistance was extracted from the impedance data. Around
50 hours after vesicle addition, rupturing of the mem-
branes becomes discernable as a decrease in membrane
resistance. Electrolyte: 0.1 M NaCl. 35
 
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