title: Density functional approach to the description of fluids in contact with bilayers.
abstract: We discuss an application of a density functional approach to describe a bilayer, or a simplified model of a membrane, that is built of tethered chain molecules. The bilayer integrity is maintained by tethering chain particles to two common sheets. We study the structure of a two-component mixture in contact with the bilayer, as well as the solvation force acting between two bilayers, immersed in a fluid. The fluid is a binary mixture involving the component that can cross freely the bilayer and the second impenetrable component. All the calculations are carried out for athermal system, in which only hard-core interactions are present.
authors.affiliation: Department for the Modeling of Physico-Chemical Processes, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, 20-031 Lublin, Poland.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Patrykiejew
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sokołowski
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ilnyskyi
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Sokołowska