Theory of Phase Transitions. From Magnets to Biomembranes.

Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes

Volumn 17, Issue , 2013, Pages 237-285

  Chamati, Hassan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Biomembranes; Critical phenomena; Finite size effects; Lipid bilayers; Magnets; Phase transitions; Thermodynamic Casimir effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877672368     PISSN: 15544516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-411516-3.00009-7     Document Type: Chapter

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