Abstract
The importance of lipid bilayers in determining the properties of natural membranes is now generally recognized and this has inevitably aroused the interest of membrane biologists in the preparation and study of such structures under simple and well-defined conditions. The black lipid film is not precisely a lipid bilayer since from the nature of the system in which it is formed, it must, in general, contain some lipid solvent. Nevertheless, this solvent may, if necessary, be reduced to no more than a few percent, and for certain purposes the pure lipid bilayer and the black film may be indistinguishable. This chapter is concerned with black films, but the interrelationships between these membranes and lipid bilayers are not wholly ignored.
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