Equilibrium Morphologies and Effective Spring Constants of Capillary Bridges

Effective spring constants for the elastically coupled insertions in membranes

Membrane-spanning peptides such as the ion channel gramicidin dimer, cause membrane deformation which contribute significantly to both the energetics of the insertion and the membrane-mediated interaction between the channels. Recently, interest in this field shifted from study of individual channels to study of collective effects in channel kinetics. Here we discuss an efficient way to describ...

Evaporation and instabilities of microscopic capillary bridges.

The formation and disappearance of liquid bridges between two surfaces can occur either through equilibrium or nonequilibrium processes. In the first instance, the bridge molecules are in thermodynamic equilibrium with the surrounding vapor medium. In the second, chemical potential gradients result in material transfer; mechanical instabilities, because of van der Waals force jumps on approach ...

Crystalline Order on Catenoidal Capillary Bridges

Role of the Capillary Bridges in Various Processes and Phenomena

Evaluation of equilibrium constants by affinity chromatography.

Theoretical expressions are derived for affinity chromatography of systems comprising an acceptor A with one binding site for attachment to a functional group X on the column matrix and one site for interaction with a small ligand B that specifically affects its elution. From a general relationship covering all possible interactions between A, B and X simpler expressions are derived for affinit...