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Handbook of Biological Physics

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The article was published on 1996-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1088 citations till now.

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Fluctuations and destabilization of single phospholipid bilayers.

TL;DR: The authors showed that this well-controlled single bilayer can form vesicles and studied the effect of the electric field at the molecular length scale by neutron reflectivity to give further understanding on the vesicle formation mechanism and on the parameters that determine the vESicle size.
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Brownian motion meets Riemann curvature

TL;DR: In this paper, the curvature effects appearing on brownian motion over a d-dimensional curved manifold are explored in terms of invariants that depend on the Riemann curvature tensor, and a general formula for the mean square geodesic distance (MSD) at the short-time regime is derived.
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Densely stacked multilamellar and oligovesicular vesicles, bilayer cylinders, and tubes joining with vesicles of a salt-free catanionic extractant and surfactant system.

TL;DR: This is the first time that birefringent Lalpha phase with remarkably deformed amphiphilic bilayer membranes has been constructed through combining a hydrophobic organic extractant having double chains with a water-soluble surfactant having a single chain.
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Avoiding failed reconstitution of ultradeformable liposomes upon dehydration.

TL;DR: Results indicated that the 27% mole sodium cholate within the UDL lipid matrix was responsible for a greater and differential mechanical sensitivity of the bilayers to the different dehydration stress, as compared to conventional liposomes.
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Initiation and dynamics of hemifusion in lipid bilayers.

TL;DR: This work predicts theoretically the initiation of hemifusion by stalk expansion and the dynamics of mesoscopic hemifusions diaphragm expansion in the light of recent experiments and theory that suggested that hem ifusion is driven by intramembrane tension far from the fusion zone.