The Role of Mechanics in the Study of Lipid Bilayers

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Steigmann, David J. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Courses and Lectures, 577
• Subjects: Mechanics.; Mechanics, Applied.; Differential geometry.; Thermodynamics.; Heat engineering.; Heat transfer.; Mass transfer.; Solid Mechanics.; Differential Geometry.; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer.

This book is the first collection of lipid-membrane research conducted by leading mechanicians and experts in continuum mechanics. It brings the overall intellectual framework afforded by modern continuum mechanics to bear on a host of challenging problems in lipid membrane physics. These include un...

Table of Contents:

• Mechanics and Physics of Lipid Bilayers
• The Role of Mechanics in the Study of Lipid Bilayers: Elasticity and Hereditariness
• Lipid Membranes: From Self-Assembly to Elasticity
• The Geometry of Fluid Membranes: Variational Principles, Symmetries and Conservation Laws
• On the Computational Modeling of Lipid Bilayers Using Thin-Shell Theory
• Onsager's Variational Principle in Soft Matter: Introduction and Application to the Dynamics of Adsorption of Proteins onto Fluid Membranes.