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Atomic Force Microscopy Imaging and Force Spectroscopy of Supported Lipid Bilayers
Published on: July 22, 2015
Nuclear relaxation studies of lecithin bilayers
S I Chan1, G W Feigenson, C H Seiter
1A. A. Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91109, USA.
Nature
|May 14, 1971
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