Effect of chain length on the heat-capacity anomaly at the gel to liquid-crystalline phase transition in unilamellar vesicles of phosphatidylcholines

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 56, Issue 1 SUPPL. B, 1997, Pages 661-666

  Uchida, Koji ^a   Yao, Haruhiko ^a   Ema, Kenji ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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EID: 0001479011     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.56.661     Document Type: Article

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