Stability of Inverse Bicontinuous Cubic Phases in Lipid-Water Mixtures
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Stability of inverse bicontinuous cubic phases in lipid-water mixtures
We investigate the stability of seven inverse bicontinuous cubic phases [ G, D, P, C(P), S, I-WP, F-RD] in lipid-water mixtures based on a curvature model of membranes. Lipid monolayers are described by parallel surfaces to triply periodic minimal surfaces. The phase behavior is determined by the distribution of the Gaussian curvature on the minimal surface and the porosity of each structure. O...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.85.1472