Entropic pressure between biomembranes in a periodic stack due to thermal fluctuations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2047-2051

  Freund, L B ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Confined fluctuations; Entropic force; Statistical mechanics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELASTICITY; ENERGY YIELD; ENTROPY; MEMBRANE BIOLOGY; MOTION; PHYSICAL RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOENGINEERING; ELASTIC MODULUS; ENTROPY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MEMBRANES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRESSURE;

EID: 84873469028     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1220968110     Document Type: Article

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