Reflectivity from floating bilayers: Can we keep the structural asymmetry?

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Volumn 340, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Rondelli, V ^a   Fragneto, G ^b   Motta, S ^a   Del Favero, E ^a   Cantu L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; REFLECTION;

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANES; EXPERIMENTAL MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS; HETEROGENEOUS COMPOSITION; NEUTRON REFLECTIVITY; STRUCTURAL ASYMMETRY; STRUCTURAL INVESTIGATION; TRANSVERSE DISTRIBUTION;

NEUTRON SCATTERING;

EID: 84858592533     PISSN: 17426588     EISSN: 17426596     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/340/1/012083     Document Type: Conference Paper

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