VOL. 21 | 2020 The Canham-Helfrich Model for the Elasticity Biomembranes as a Limit of Mesoscopic Energiess
Chapter Author(s) Luca Lussardi
Editor(s) Ivaïlo M. Mladenov, Vladimir Pulov, Akira Yoshioka
Geom. Integrability & Quantization, 2020: 170-180 (2020) DOI: 10.7546/giq-21-2020-170-180

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.

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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

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