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The European Physical Journal B
ISSN: 1434-6028 (printed version)
ISSN: 1434-6036 (electronic version)
Abstract Volume 1 Issue 4 (1998) pp 399-400
rapid note: Comment on "Growth of Molecular Superlattice in Fully Hydrated Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine during Subgel Phase Formation Process" by H. Takahashi, K. Hatta and I. Hatta
J.F. Nagle (1) (a), S. Tristram-Nagle (1), H. Takahashi (2), I. Hatta (2)
(1) Departments of Physics and Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
(2) Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8603, Japan
Received: 11 December 1997 / Accepted: 28 January 1998
Abstract: This comment shows that data recently reported [#!ref1!#] as being seemingly in conflict with earlier data [#!ref2!#] are, in fact, in excellent agreement. Together, both studies confirm that the kinetics of the subgel phase transformation in dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) lipid bilayers obeys Kolmogorov-Avrami (K-A) theory [#!ref3!#,#!ref4!#] with an anomalously low effective dimensionality.
PACS. 87.22.Bt Membrane and subcellular physics and structure - 82.60.Nh Thermodynamics of nucleation
(a) email: nagle+@andrew.cmu.edu
Online publication: March 19, 1998
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