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On the effect of the solid support on the interleaflet distribution of lipids in supported lipid bilayers

Ralf P Richter1, Nicolas Maury, Alain R Brisson

  • 1Laboratoire d'Imagerie Moléculaire et Nano-Bio-Technologie, IECB, UMR-CNRS 5471, Université Bordeaux I, 2 Rue Robert Escarpit, 33607 Pessac Cedex, France.

Langmuir : the ACS Journal of Surfaces and Colloids
|December 29, 2004
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