--- trunk/tengDissertation/phdPreamble.tex	2006/06/30 03:19:40	2913
+++ trunk/tengDissertation/phdPreamble.tex	2006/07/17 15:28:44	2938
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ phospholipids and banana-shaped liquid crystals. Altho
 In order to simulate large soft condensed systems for long times
 within a reasonable amount of computational time, some new
 coarse-grained models are presented in this dissertation to describe
-phospholipids and banana-shaped liquid crystals. Although these
+phospholipids and liquid crystals. Although these
 models can be described using a small number of physical parameters,
 it is not trivial to introduce rigid constraints between different
 molecular fragments correctly and efficiently. Working with
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ membranes as well as the the phase behavior of banana 
 of performing simulation on systems with orientational degrees of
 freedom in a variety of ensembles. Using this new package, I studied
 the structure, dynamics and transport properties of the biological
-membranes as well as the the phase behavior of banana shaped liquid
+membranes as well as the the phase behavior of liquid
 crystals. A new Langevin dynamics algorithm for arbitrary rigid
 particles is also presented to mimic solvent effects which may
 eventually expand the time scale of the simulation.