Measuring the spontaneous curvature of bilayer membranes by molecular dynamics simulations

Communications in Computational Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1093-1106

  Wang, Han ^a,b   Hu, Dan ^c   Zhang, Pingwen ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bilayer membrane; Helfrich free energy; Molecular dynamics simulation; Spontaneous curvature

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869784620     PISSN: 18152406     EISSN: 19917120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4208/cicp.230411.230312a     Document Type: Article

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