Nano-domain formation in charged membranes: Beyond the Debye-Hückel approximation
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عنوان ژورنال: EPL (Europhysics Letters)
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0295-5075,1286-4854
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/114/28002