Overview of a Quest for Bending Elasticity Measurement

Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes

Volumn 17, Issue , 2013, Pages 55-75

  Méléard, Philippe ^a   Pott, Tanja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ EUROPÉENNE DE BRETAGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Bending elasticity; Giant unilamellar vesicles; GUV; Overview; Thermal shape fluctuations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877667858     PISSN: 15544516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-411516-3.00003-6     Document Type: Chapter

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