Lipid Bilayers and Membranes. Material Properties.

Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes

Volumn 17, Issue , 2013, Pages 89-138

  Vitkova, Victoria ^a   Petrov, Alexander G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Additives; Defects; Elasticity; Flexoelectricity; Gaussian curvature; Lipid membranes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877674993     PISSN: 15544516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-411516-3.00005-X     Document Type: Chapter

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