Methodological problems in pressure profile calculations for lipid bilayers
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Methodological problems in pressure profile calculations for lipid bilayers.
From molecular dynamics simulations of a dipalmitoyl-phosphatidyl-choline (DPPC) lipid bilayer in the liquid crystalline phase, pressure profiles through the bilayer are calculated by different methods. These profiles allow us to address two central and unresolved problems in pressure profile calculations: The first problem is that the pressure profile is not uniquely defined since the expressi...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Chemical Physics
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0021-9606,1089-7690
DOI: 10.1063/1.1862624