Small-scale lipid-membrane structure: Simulation versus experiment

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 518-527

  Mouritsen, Ole G ^a   Jørgensen, Kent ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0030820281     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(97)80116-9     Document Type: Article

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