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Self-Assembly of Hybrid Lipid Membranes Doped with Hydrophobic Organic Molecules at the Water/Air Interface
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Stepwise-resolved thermodynamics of hydrophobic self-assembly
Alina Grego1, Achim Müller, Ira A Weinstock
1Department of Chemistry and the Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, 84105, Israel.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|June 15, 2013
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