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SEVERAL workers1,2 have built up multilayers from proteins spread at the water-air interface, using some modification of Blodgett's technique3, and drying the wet slide between each dip. It has sometimes been assumed that this procedure deposits a monolayer of protein on the slide at each movement of the piston and that the thickness of the resultant multilayer is a simple multiple of the thickness of the surface film of the protein on water, also that this thickness is a measure of the lengths of the side chains in the protein.
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DEAN, R., GATTY, O. & STENHAGEN, E. Deposition of Protein Multilayers. Nature 143, 721–722 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143721a0
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