title: Planar membranes interaction.
abstract: The system of two parallel planar, arbitrarily charged surfaces immersed in a solution containing only one ionic species, the counterions, is completely analyzed under a mean field Poisson-Boltzmann approach. Results for the pressure, reduced potential, and counterionic concentration are graphically displayed for two dissociating membranes and for a dissociating and an adsorbing membrane. The results indicate that the system of two planar parallel dissociating membranes acts as a buffer for pressure values and for counterionic concentration values in regions interior to and far from the membranes. The results are related to properties of planar or quasiplanar structures in biological cells.
authors.affiliation: UNESP-Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas, Rua Cristóvão Colombo 2265, CEP 15054-000 São Jose do Rio Preto, S.P., Brazil. augusto@ibilce.unesp.br
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Agostinho-Neto
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Drigo-Filho
mesh_terms: D000327:Adsorption; D000465:Algorithms; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000737:chemistry*; D007477:Ions; D008051:Lipid Bilayers / Q000737:chemistry*; D008560:Membrane Fluidity; D008954:Models, Biological; D016012:Poisson Distribution; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D013499:Surface Properties
chemical_list: D007477:Ions; D008051:Lipid Bilayers