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Fabrication Procedures and Birefringence Measurements for Designing Magnetically Responsive Lanthanide Ion Chelating Phospholipid Assemblies
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Fabrication Procedures and Birefringence Measurements for Designing Magnetically Responsive Lanthanide Ion Chelating Phospholipid Assemblies

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Magnetic field alignable domains in phospholipid vesicle membranes containing lanthanides

Paul Beck1, Marianne Liebi, Joachim Kohlbrecher

  • 1Laboratory of Food Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.

The Journal of Physical Chemistry. B
|December 19, 2009
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