Configurations of fluid membranes and vesicles

Advances in Physics

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 13-137

  Seifert, Udo ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); CELLS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; ELASTICITY; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; FRICTION; PHASE DIAGRAMS; SURFACE STRUCTURE; THERMAL EFFECTS; TOPOLOGY;

AMPHILIC LIPID MOLECULES; BENDING ENERGY; VESICLES;

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES;

EID: 0030735760     PISSN: 00018732     EISSN: 14606976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00018739700101488     Document Type: Article

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