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Polymorphism of Lecithins

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Lecithin–water systems display a variety of phases. Several of these phases, observed at a high temperature in the presence of small amounts of water, belong to a class of structures recently discovered in the anhydrous divalent cation-soaps. In these structures the polar groups are clustered in rod-shaped regions, embedded in a disordered paraffin matrix. In one of the phases the rods are infinitely long; in two others the rods are of finite length, and join three by three, forming two and three-dimensional networks.

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    VITTORIO LUZZATI, T. GULIK-KRZYWICKI & A. TARDIEU

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LUZZATI, V., GULIK-KRZYWICKI, T. & TARDIEU, A. Polymorphism of Lecithins. Nature 218, 1031–1034 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/2181031a0

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