Interbilayer Forces in Membrane Fusion - Inter-bilayer Forces

Inter-bilayer Forces

Lipid bilayers are structures of lipid molecules consisting of a hydrophobic tail and a hydrophilic head group. Therefore, these structures experience all the characteristic Interbilayer forces involved in that regime.

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