Figure 16.

DMPC lipid molecules described at multiple resolutions, ranging from the nanoscale to the macroscopic scale. All atoms in a lipid are explicitly represented at the nanoscale, whereas in the mesoscale, where coarse grained simulations are used, only a reduced number of atomic coordinates are used to represent the lipid molecule. At length and time scales that fall into the continuum regime the relevant parameters are determined from the structural and physical properties of the membrane.