Gaining insights into the fluctuation-induced entropic pressure between membranes that mediates cell adhesion and signal transduction is of great significance for understanding numerous physiological processes driven by intercellular communication. Although much effort has been directed toward investigating this entropic pressure, there still exists tremendous controversy regarding its quantitative nature, which is of primary interest in biophysics, since Freund challenged the Helfrich's well-accepted results on the distance dependence. In this paper, we have investigated the entropic pressure between fluctuating membranes in multilayer systems under pressure and tension through theoretical analysis and Monte Carlo simulations. We find that...
Variations in the composition of cell membranes can strongly influence the function of proteins embe...
Here we report studies on biologically important intermembrane repulsion forces using molecular dyna...
Curvature is a fundamental lipid membrane property that influences many membrane-mediated biological...
Gaining insights into the fluctuation-induced entropic pressure between membranes that mediates cell...
Following the publication of Freund's work on entropic pressure (Freund L., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U...
We prove that a tensionless membrane, fluctuating harmonically with free ends between two parallel p...
Biological membranes undergo noticeable thermal fluctuations at physiological temperatures. When two...
We investigate the properties of membranes under tension by Monte Carlo simulations of a generic coa...
Lipid membranes and fiber networks in biological systems perform important mechanical functions at t...
We analyse the thermal fluctuations of two types of flexible membranes : 1) Closed systems (such as ...
For a single membrane of stiffness k fluctuating between two planar walls of distance d, we calculat...
Lipid membranes constitute very particular materials: on the one hand, they break very easily under ...
We present a new scheme to estimate the elastic properties of biological membranes in computer simul...
At physiological temperatures, most biological membranes noticeably fluctuate and these thermal fluc...
Here we report studies on biologically important intermembrane repulsion forces using molecular dyna...
Variations in the composition of cell membranes can strongly influence the function of proteins embe...
Here we report studies on biologically important intermembrane repulsion forces using molecular dyna...
Curvature is a fundamental lipid membrane property that influences many membrane-mediated biological...
Gaining insights into the fluctuation-induced entropic pressure between membranes that mediates cell...
Following the publication of Freund's work on entropic pressure (Freund L., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U...
We prove that a tensionless membrane, fluctuating harmonically with free ends between two parallel p...
Biological membranes undergo noticeable thermal fluctuations at physiological temperatures. When two...
We investigate the properties of membranes under tension by Monte Carlo simulations of a generic coa...
Lipid membranes and fiber networks in biological systems perform important mechanical functions at t...
We analyse the thermal fluctuations of two types of flexible membranes : 1) Closed systems (such as ...
For a single membrane of stiffness k fluctuating between two planar walls of distance d, we calculat...
Lipid membranes constitute very particular materials: on the one hand, they break very easily under ...
We present a new scheme to estimate the elastic properties of biological membranes in computer simul...
At physiological temperatures, most biological membranes noticeably fluctuate and these thermal fluc...
Here we report studies on biologically important intermembrane repulsion forces using molecular dyna...
Variations in the composition of cell membranes can strongly influence the function of proteins embe...
Here we report studies on biologically important intermembrane repulsion forces using molecular dyna...
Curvature is a fundamental lipid membrane property that influences many membrane-mediated biological...