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We are used to study processes and structures in Nature as three-dimensional phenomena. Lipid bilayers and biological membranes also live in three-dimensional space. As pointed out and described in Chap. 6, membranes, due to their incredible small thickness compared to their extension, are in many respects like two-dimensional systems imbedded in a three-dimensional space. Still, due to curvature free membranes are not truly two-dimensional and there is distinct coupling between the in-plane degrees of freedom and the curvature into the three-dimensional world.
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Mouritsen, O.G., Bagatolli, L.A. (2016). Lipids in Flatland. In: LIFE - AS A MATTER OF FAT. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22614-9_10
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