1. The Fundamental Alternatives 2. The First Energy Source for Life (a) Exergonic pyrite
formation (b) The requirement of redox inhibition 3. Pyrite-Surface Bonding 4. Surface …

When detergents and phospholipid membranes are dispersed in aqueous solutions, they
tend to self-assemble into vesicles of various shapes and sizes by virtue of their hydrophobic …

During evolution, there have been several major changes in the way that genetic information
is organized and transmitted from one generation to the next. These transitions include the …

The observation by transmission electron microscopy of six different stable aggregate
morphologies is reported for the same family of highly asymmetric polystyrene-poly-(acrylic …

Vesicles consisting of a bilayer membrane of amphiphilic lipid molecules are remarkably
flexible surfaces that show an amazing variety of shapes of different symmetry and topology …

Understanding the structural and thermodynamic properties of surfaces, interfaces, and
membranes is important for both fundamental and practical reasons. Important applications …

Monolayer spontaneous curvatures for cholesterol, DOPE, POPE, DOPC, DPPC, DSPC,
POPC, SOPC, and egg sphingomyelin were obtained using small-angle X-ray scattering …

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information on a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field. User-friendly and high-quality …

More than a quarter of a century ago, Bangham et al. 1 showed that phospholipids
dispersed in water formed closed, multibilayer aggregates capable of separating an internal …

The partial ternary phase diagram was investigated for the polystyrene310-block-poly
(acrylic acid) 52 copolymer in dioxane/water mixtures in regions in which self-assembled …