Summary: Europhys. Lett., 64 (6), pp. 844­850 (2003)
EUROPHYSICS LETTERS 15 December 2003
The unbinding transition of mixed fluid membranes
S. Komura1
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) and D. Andelman2
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)
1
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Tokyo 192-0397, Japan
2
School of Physics and Astronomy, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty
of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University - Ramat Aviv 69978, Tel Aviv, Israel
(received 5 August 2003; accepted in final form 8 October 2003)
PACS. 87.16.Dg ­ Membranes, bilayers, and vesicles.
PACS. 68.05.-n ­ Liquid-liquid interfaces.
PACS. 64.60.-i ­ General studies of phase transitions.
Abstract. ­ A phenomenological model for the unbinding transition of multicomponent fluid
membranes is proposed, where the unbinding transition is described using a theory analogous

Source: Andelman, David - School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University

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