the driving force for aggregating the hydrocarbon chains and assembling the charged head groups and the counterions. The hydrocarbon chains are drawn in a schematic fashion; in reality, their conformational state is disordered similarly as shown in Fig. 15.

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the driving force for aggregating the hydrocarbon chains and assembling the charged head groups and the counterions. The hydrocarbon chains are drawn in a schematic fashion; in reality, their conformational state is disordered similarly as shown in Fig. 15.

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Moreover, on the same basis, one can rather readily deal with the other geometries: cylinders, planar bilayers, and curved bilayers, thus enabling theoretical calculations of the relative stabilities of spherical, rod-shaped, and disc-shaped micelles as well as geometrically closed vesicles [60].