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Calculating the Bending Modulus for Multicomponent Lipid Membranes in Different Thermodynamic Phases

George Khelashvili1, Benjamin Kollmitzer, Peter Heftberger

  • 1Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York 10065, United States.

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
|September 17, 2013
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