Cholesterol monohydrate nucleation in ultrathin films on water

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 2729-2736

  Rapaport, Hanna ^a   Kuzmenko, Ivan ^a   Lafont, Sylvaine ^a   Kjaer, Kristian ^b   Howes, Paul B ^b   Als Nielsen, Jens ^c   Lahav, Meir ^a   Leiserowitz, Leslie ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HYDROXYL GROUP; STIGMASTEROL; WATER;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LIPID BILAYER; LIQUID CRYSTAL; PHASE TRANSITION; SURFACE TENSION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0034763332     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(01)75915-2     Document Type: Article

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