Nonequilibrium dynamics of lipid membranes: Deformation and stability in electric fields

Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes

Volumn 12, Issue C, 2010, Pages 101-146

  Vlahovska, Petia M ^a  

^a Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

Electric fields; Electrohydrodynamics; Lipid membrane; Stokes flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958121198     PISSN: 15544516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-381266-7.00005-5     Document Type: Chapter

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