Minimal lattice model of lipid membranes with liquid-ordered domains
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چکیده
The authors develop a minimal multiscale lattice model of the binary mixture saturated lipid and cholesterol that reveals new thermodynamic mechanism behind appearance heterogeneous liquid ordered domains in mixture.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical review research
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2643-1564']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.3.l042030