Replication of simulated prebiotic amphiphile vesicles controlled by experimental lipid physicochemical properties

Physical Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Armstrong, Don L ^a   Markovitch, Omer ^b   Zidovetzki, Raphael ^a   Lancet, Doron ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID; LIPOSOME; SURFACTANT;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; LIPID BILAYER; MICELLE; THERMODYNAMICS;

BIOGENESIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; LIPID BILAYERS; LIPIDS; LIPOSOMES; MICELLES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 82955225199     PISSN: 14783967     EISSN: 14783975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/8/6/066001     Document Type: Article

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