Abstract
In this paper we review some recent results concerning the variational deduction of a Canham-Helfrich model for biomembranes obtained starting from a mesoscopic model which implements the amphiphilic behavior of the lipid molecules and the head-tail connection. The two-dimensional analysis is complete while in the three-dimensional case we have partial results and open problems.
Information
Published: 1 January 2020
First available in Project Euclid: 14 October 2020
Digital Object Identifier: 10.7546/giq-21-2020-170-180
Rights: Copyright © 2020 Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences