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Fluctuations in Phases of Membranes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

Didier Roux
Didier Roux*
Affiliation:
Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB, Santa Barbara CA 93106 USA Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, Domaine Universitaire 33405 Talence Cedex France
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Abstract

Surfactants in solution may associate into two dimensional aggregates (membranes) which self-organize either in liquid crystalline phases or in liquid isotropic phases made of connected bilayers. When specially designed surfactants or mixture of surfactants are used the elastic modulus of these membranes may be of the order kBT. In this case, thermal fluctuations are important and lead to interesting predictions among which the existence of undulation forces and logarithm corrections to thermodynamical properties, characteristic of fluctuations in two dimensional systems, have been observed experimentally.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 177: Symposium V – Macromolecular Liquids , 1989 , 91
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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