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Shown in (a) is a flat bilayer with negatively charged head group and its hydrophobic tails oriented along the surface normal, in (b) is the tilted phase of a membrane, where the orientation of its tail molecules subtends an angle with the surface normal, and in (c) is a Gemini surfactant molecule, with its dimeric heads linked by a rigid spacer.
