Phase separation and near-critical fluctuations in two-component lipid membranes: Monte Carlo simulations on experimentally relevant scales

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ehrig, Jens ^a   Petrov, Eugene P ^a   Schwille, Petra ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSENING DYNAMICS; COEXISTENCE REGION; CRITICAL POINTS; FLUID-PHASE; INTERACTION PARAMETERS; INVERSE CORRELATION; LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; LATERAL DIFFUSION; LINE TENSION; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID DOMAINS; LIPID MEMBRANES; LIPID MIXTURES; LIPID MOLECULES; MODEL SYSTEM; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; ORDER PARAMETER; PHASE CO-EXISTENCE; PHASE-SEPARATION PROCESS; SIMULATION STUDIES; SPATIAL FLUCTUATION; SPATIAL SCALE; SUBDIFFUSION; TIME INTERVAL; TWO-COMPONENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUIDS; GELS; LIPIDS; MEMBRANES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

PHASE SEPARATION;

EID: 79955796567     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/4/045019     Document Type: Article

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