Lateral stress relaxation and collapse in lipid monolayers
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Lateral stress relaxation and collapse in lipid monolayers.
Surfactants at air/water interfaces are often subjected to mechanical stresses as the interfaces they occupy are reduced in area. The most well characterized forms of stress relaxation in these systems are first order phase transitions from lower density to higher density phases. Here we study stress relaxation in lipid monolayers that occurs once chemical phase transitions have been exhausted....
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عنوان ژورنال: Soft Matter
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1744-683X,1744-6848
DOI: 10.1039/b804611e