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Nature Materials 3, 589 - 591 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nmat1208

Biomimetic membrane modelling: Pictures from the twilight zone

Reinhard Lipowsky1

  1. Reinhard Lipowsky is at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, 14424 Potsdam, Germany. e-mail: lipowsky@mpikg-golm.mpg.de


Biological and biomimetic membranes are multiscale assemblies extending from small molecular clusters to large domains with an area of 100,000 nm2. New computer simulations give us a look into this experimental twilight zone.

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