Controlled growth of filamentous fatty acid vesicles under flow

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 49, 2014, Pages 14916-14925

  Hentrich, Christian ^a,b   Szostak, Jack W ^a,b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANES; MICELLES;

ACID CONCENTRATIONS; CONTROLLED GROWTH; FATTY-ACID MOLECULES; FILAMENT FORMATION; FILAMENTOUS GROWTH; MEMBRANE COMPARTMENT; SALT CONCENTRATION; STRONG DEPENDENCES;

FATTY ACIDS;

FATTY ACID; IMMOBILIZED PROTEIN; LIPOSOME; MICELLE;

BIOGENESIS; CHEMISTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MEMBRANE; MICELLE;

FATTY ACIDS; IMMOBILIZED PROTEINS; LIPOSOMES; MEMBRANES; MICELLES; ORIGIN OF LIFE;

EID: 84918827500     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la503933x     Document Type: Article

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