“…This spectral parameter has been used widely to monitor various structural and dynamic properties of a wide range of aqueous lipid bilayers and biomembranes. These structural and dynamic properties are: (i) large angle reorientational fluctuations (Auger, 1988;Tupper, 1992;; (ii) interchain packing (Siminovitch, 1987a;Wong, , 1984aWong, , 1989a; (iii) interchain and intrachain configuration distortion (Wong, 1985a); (iv) mechanism for the formation of the lamellar subgel phase (Wong, 1986); (v) interdigitation (Auger, 1988;Siminovitch, 1987bSiminovitch, , 1987cWong 1989b); (vi) interchain interactions (Hubner, 1990; Siminovitch, 1987b;Tupper, 1992); (vii) unsaturation induced changes in molecular configurations in lipid bilayers (Siminovitch, 1987a(Siminovitch, , 1987d; (viii) the effects of anesthetics (Auger, 1988(Auger, , 1990), toxins (Ahmed, 1992;, drugs (Popovic, 1992;Taylor, 1992), alkanes ), cholesterol (Wong, 1989a(Wong, , 1989c, polypeptides (Carrier, 1990), proteins (Gicquaud, 1992;Philp, 1990), fluorescent probes (Chong, 1989(Chong, , 1992, and other exogenous molecules (unpublished work from this laboratory) on the structural and dynamic properties in the bilayer interior of various lipids, and vice versa; (ix) the location and binding sites of these exogenous molecules in lipid bilayers (Ahmed, 1992;Auger, 1988Auger, , 1990Carrier, 1990;Chong, 1989Chong, , 1992; Gicquaud, 1992;Philp, 1990;…”