Kinetics of hole nucleation in biomembrane rupture

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Evans, Evan ^a,b   Smith, Benjamin A ^b,c  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYL CHAIN; BI-LAYER; BIOMEMBRANES; CORE COMPONENTS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; FAILURE RATE; FLUID MEMBRANE; KINETIC PROCESS; KINETIC RATES; LOGARITHMIC SCALE; MECHANICAL TENSION; MEMBRANE VESICLES; MESOSCALE; MICRO-PIPETTE; NANO SCALE; NUCLEATION THEORY; PRECISION CONTROL; SYNTHETIC PHOSPHOLIPIDS; THERMAL ACTIVATION; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS;

CELL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; KINETICS; LIPID BILAYERS; MEMBRANES; NUCLEATION; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

ACTIVATION ENERGY;

EID: 80053426150     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/9/095010     Document Type: Article

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