The attractive forces between polar lipid bilayers.
Long-range attractive forces between lipid bilayers are not well described by the Lifshitz theory of Van der Waals forces between macroscopic media. It is shown that when correlations between polar headgroups are taken into account, the predicted forces take a qualitatively different form consistent with the measured data.
Attard
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Department of Applied Mathematics, Research School of Physical Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra.
Mitchell
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DJ
Ninham
B W
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D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D001703:Biophysics; D008051:Lipid Bilayers; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010743:Phospholipids; D013816:Thermodynamics
D008051:Lipid Bilayers; D010743:Phospholipids