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      The conformation of membranes.

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          Membranes composed of amphiphilic molecules are highly flexible surfaces that determine the architecture of biological systems and provide a basic structural element for complex fluids such as microemulsions. Physical theories have been developed to describe many aspects of their conformational behaviour, such as the preferred shapes and shape transformations of closed vesicles, and the shape fluctuations, random-surface configurations, and adhesion and unbinding of interacting membranes. Understanding of these phenomena has been much improved through fruitful interactions between theory and experiment.

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          Journal
          Nature
          Nature
          Springer Science and Business Media LLC
          0028-0836
          0028-0836
          Feb 07 1991
          : 349
          : 6309
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Institut für Festkörperforschung, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany.
          Article
          10.1038/349475a0
          1992351
          671b095c-6cea-4d88-a752-16663be74a41
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