Elastic curvature constants of lipid monolayers and bilayers
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Elastic curvature constants of lipid monolayers and bilayers.
Bending elasticity is an important property of lipid vesicles, non-lamellar lipid phases and biological membranes. Experimental values of the mean curvature moduli, k(c), of lipid bilayers and of the monolayer leaflets of inverted hexagonal (H(II)) phases of lipids are tabulated here for easy reference. Experimental estimates of the Gaussian curvature modulus, k (c), are also included. Consider...
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عنوان ژورنال: Chemistry and Physics of Lipids
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0009-3084
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2006.08.004