What determines the thickness of biological membrane?
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1 Canadian Neutron Beam Centre, National Research Council, Chalk River, Ontario K0J 1P0, Canada 2 Department of Physical Chemistry of Drugs, Comenius University, 832 32 Bratislava, Slovakia 3 Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA 4 University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada 5 Department of Physics, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Avenue, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada
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