Tag: Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
Refined hydrodynamic models add lipid alignment to bilayer theory
What the study found The authors derive refined hydrodynamic models for lipid bilayers that include a scalar order parameter for the molecular alignment of lipids along the surface normal. They obtain a hydrodynamic surface Landau–Helfrich model for asymmetric lipid bilayers and a surface Beris–Edwards model for symmetric lipid bilayers. Why the authors say this matters…