Block liposome and nanotube formation is a general phenomenon of two-component membranes containing multivalent lipids

Soft Matter

Volumn 7, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 8363-8369

  Zidovska, Alexandra ^a,b,c   Ewert, Kai K ^a   Quispe, Joel ^d   Carragher, Bridget ^d   Potter, Clinton S ^d   Safinya, Cyrus R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATIONIC LIPIDS; NANOTUBE FORMATION; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; STORAGE AND DELIVERY; TEMPLATING; TWO-COMPONENT;

LIPOSOMES; PHOSPHOLIPIDS;

NANOTUBES;

EID: 80052549481     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm05481c     Document Type: Article

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