Giant Vesicles. A Biomimetic Tool for Membrane Characterization.

Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes

Volumn 16, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-50

  Dimova, Rumiana ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bending rigidity; Electrodeformation; Electroporation; Model membranes; Vesicles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864823814     PISSN: 15544516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-396534-9.00001-5     Document Type: Chapter

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