Electrostatic bending of lipid membranes: How are lipid and electrostatic properties interrelated?

Langmuir

Volumn 26, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 14737-14746

  Taheri Araghi, Sattar ^a   Ha, Bae Yeun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BI-LAYER; CELL SHAPES; CHARGE CORRELATION; COUNTERIONS; DIVALENT COUNTERIONS; ELECTROSTATIC EFFECT; ELECTROSTATIC INTERACTIONS; ELECTROSTATIC MODIFICATION; ELECTROSTATIC PROPERTIES; HEAD GROUPS; INVERTED MICELLES; IONIC SIZES; LIPID CHARGE; LIPID MEMBRANES; LIPID PROPERTIES; MECHANOSENSITIVE CHANNEL; MEMBRANE BENDING; MEMBRANE CURVATURE; MEMBRANE SURFACE; POISSON-BOLTZMANN; THEORETICAL APPROACH;

ELECTROSTATICS; MEMBRANES;

LIPID BILAYERS;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; LIPID BILAYER; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

BIOMECHANICS; CELL MEMBRANE; LIPID BILAYERS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; SOLUTIONS; STATIC ELECTRICITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 77956585889     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la102052r     Document Type: Article

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