Tuning bilayer twist using chiral counterions

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6736, 1999, Pages 566-569

  Oda, R ^a,b   Huc, I ^a   Schmutz, M ^c   Candau, S J ^b   MacKintosh, F C ^b,d  

^a INSTITUT EUROPÉEN DE CHIMIE ET BIOLOGIE   (France)

^b DYNFLUID LABORATORY   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURFACTANT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHIRALITY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENANTIOMER; MOLECULAR MODEL; PHASE SEPARATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

MEMBRANES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; SOLVENTS; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; TARTRATES; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER;

EID: 0033542439     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/21154     Document Type: Article

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