@inbook{12f4dd8a879143a09fd575e88496645b,
title = "A microscopic model calculation of the phase diagram of ternary mixtures of cholesterol and saturated and unsaturated phospholipids",
abstract = "The authors solved a microscopic model that describes mixtures of a saturated phospholipid, an unsaturated phospholipid, and cholesterol. The method employed was the self-consistent field approximation. The model was capable of producing several classes of phase diagram, but only one of them showed a liquid-liquid coexistence region. The phospholipids in the cholesterol-rich liquid are more ordered than those in the cholesterol-poor liquid. Within this model, coexistence of two liquids in the ternary system is intimately tied to such coexistence in the binary cholesterolsaturated phospholipid system.",
keywords = "Phase coexistance, Phase diagrams, Rafts, Self-consistent field theory, Ternary mixtures, Theoretical models",
author = "R. Elliott and I. Szleifer and M. Schick",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1007/978-1-59745-513-8_20",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781588297297",
series = "Methods in Molecular Biology",
pages = "303--317",
editor = "McIntosh, {Thomas J.}",
booktitle = "Lipid Rafts",
}