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A blast from the past

A blast from the past NEWS & VIEWS several molecular components should undergo phase MATERIAL WITNESS separation and form intramembrane domains. If the membrane is under low tension, these domains tend to form spherical membrane buds, a theoretical prediction that has been recently confirmed by optical ometimes you never know when a 1,7 microscopy .Where direct observation by optical material will come into its own. microscopy is not possible, a variety of coarse-grain Fifty years ago there was a small membrane models (Fig. 1) can be used to study bilayers flurry of work on a rather obscure containing several lipid or diblock copolymer S class of metal oxides, components, or even mixtures of lipids and diblocks. manganites with a perovskite structure. Computer simulations are also beginning to shed These materials had interesting magnetic light on the fusion of bilayer membranes — a properties: they exhibited a phenomenon topological transformation that is crucial for dubbed double exchange, wherein electron intracellular transport and communication. In this spins on adjacent mixed-valence metal ions process, one starts from two separate nano- or are coupled by delocalization of an electron microcompartments simulating two unilamellar between them. vesicles. These compartments adhere to each other, and This process, explained by Clarence http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nature Materials Springer Journals

A blast from the past

Ball, Philip
Nature Materials , Volume 3 (9) – Sep 1, 2004
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A blast from the past

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NEWS & VIEWS several molecular components should undergo phase MATERIAL WITNESS separation and form intramembrane domains. If the membrane is under low tension, these domains tend to form spherical membrane buds, a theoretical prediction that has been recently confirmed by optical ometimes you never know when a 1,7 microscopy .Where direct observation by optical material will come into its own. microscopy is not possible, a variety of coarse-grain Fifty years ago there was a small...
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2004 by Nature Publishing Group
Subject
Materials Science; Materials Science, general; Optical and Electronic Materials; Biomaterials; Nanotechnology; Condensed Matter Physics
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1476-1122
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1476-4660
DOI
10.1038/nmat1209
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Abstract

NEWS & VIEWS several molecular components should undergo phase MATERIAL WITNESS separation and form intramembrane domains. If the membrane is under low tension, these domains tend to form spherical membrane buds, a theoretical prediction that has been recently confirmed by optical ometimes you never know when a 1,7 microscopy .Where direct observation by optical material will come into its own. microscopy is not possible, a variety of coarse-grain Fifty years ago there was a small membrane models (Fig. 1) can be used to study bilayers flurry of work on a rather obscure containing several lipid or diblock copolymer S class of metal oxides, components, or even mixtures of lipids and diblocks. manganites with a perovskite structure. Computer simulations are also beginning to shed These materials had interesting magnetic light on the fusion of bilayer membranes — a properties: they exhibited a phenomenon topological transformation that is crucial for dubbed double exchange, wherein electron intracellular transport and communication. In this spins on adjacent mixed-valence metal ions process, one starts from two separate nano- or are coupled by delocalization of an electron microcompartments simulating two unilamellar between them. vesicles. These compartments adhere to each other, and This process, explained by Clarence

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Published: Sep 1, 2004

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