Primitive Membrane Formation, Characteristics and Roles in the Emergent Properties of a Protocell

Entropy

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 466-484

  Maurer, Sarah Elizabeth ^a   Monnard, Pierre Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Artificial cells; Compartmentalization; Liposomes; Membrane supported reaction networks; Protocell; Vesicles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882295217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e13020466     Document Type: Review

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