Average hydrodynamic diameters and sizes of the lipid aggregates as obtained from the DLS measurements, and TEM studies respectively.

The bilayer widths of the aggregates of the cationic gemini lipids as revealed from the x-ray diffractions. aHydrodynamic diameters as obtained from DLS measurements; each value is shown as the mean ± S.D. (standard deviation) (n = 3). bAs evidenced from TEM. cLipid bilayer width from the XRD experiments; the error in the measurements of width were within ±1%.