Organization of lipids in the tear film: a molecular-level view.

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Published in PLoS One on March 20, 2014

Authors

Alicja Wizert1, D Robert Iskander1, Lukasz Cwiklik2

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland.
2: J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Prague, Czech Republic; Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Prague, Czech Republic; Department of Physics, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland.

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