Phase transitions and modulated phases in lipid bilayers
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 51 (1) , 504-513
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.51.504
Abstract
We develop and analyze a continuum Landau theory for ordered chiral and achiral bilayer membranes. This theory contains couplings between tangent-plane orientational order and curvature that lead to “rippled” or phases with one-dimensional height modulations and to phases with two-dimensional height modulations. We calculate mean-field phase diagrams from this model.
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