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In this Letter, we describe the synthesis of amphiphilic oligo(p-phenylene)
s from 31 to 44 Angstrom length and delineate the interaction of these rigi
d-rod molecules with lipid bilayers using fluorescence quenching methods. T
he results demonstrate high importance of hydrophobic mismatch for selectiv
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