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Títol:	Curved fluid membranes behave laterally as an effective viscoelastic medium
Autor/a:	Rahimi Lenji, Mohammad; DeSimone, Antonio; Arroyo Balaguer, Marino
Altres autors:	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria Civil i Ambiental; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. LACÀN - Mètodes Numèrics en Ciències Aplicades i Enginyeria
Abstract:	The lateral mobility of membrane inclusions is essential in biological processes involving membrane-bound macromolecules, which often take place in highly curved geometries such as membrane tubes or small organelles. Probe mobility is assisted by the lateral fluidity, which is thought to be purely viscous for lipid bilayers and synthetic systems such as polymersomes. In previous theoretical studies, the hydrodynamical mobility is estimated assuming a fixed membrane geometry. However, fluid membranes are very flexible out-of-plane. By accounting for the deformability of the membrane and in the presence of curvature, we show that the lateral motion of an inclusion produces a normal force, which results in a nonuniform membrane deformation. Such a deformation mobilizes the bending elasticity, produces extra lateral viscous and elastic forces, and results in an effective lateral viscoelastic behavior. The coupling between lateral and out-of-plane mechanics is mediated by the interfacial hydrodynamics and curvature. We analyze the frequency and curvature dependent rheology of flexible fluid membranes, and interpret it with a simple four-element model, which provides a background for microrheological experiments. Two key technical aspects of the present work are a new formulation for the interfacial hydrodynamics, and the linearization of the governing equations around a cylindrical geometry.
Abstract:	Peer Reviewed
Matèries:	-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Investigació operativa::Simulació -Elasticity -Elasticitat -Classificació AMS::74 Mechanics of deformable solids::74B Elastic materials
Drets:	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
Tipus de document:	Article - Versió presentada Article
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