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Long-Range Forces in Heterogeneous Fluid Membranes

Europhysics Letters (EPL) · 1993 · Vol. 22(2) · pp. 145–150

Mark Goulian✉(University of California, Santa Barbara)Robijn Bruinsma(University of California, Los Angeles)P. Pincus(University of California, Santa Barbara)

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Abstract

We find a new long-range interaction between foreign inclusions (e.g. mobile proteins) in a fluid membrane which is mediated by the membrane itself. The interaction falls off as 1/R4, can be attractive or repulsive depending on the temperature and the elastic properties of the inclusion and the membrane, and for large distances is large compared with electrostatic, van der Waals, and other lipid-mediated forces.

Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications Mechanical and Optical ResonatorsMembranevan der Waals forceRange (aeronautics)Chemical physicsMaterials scienceBiophysicsChemistryMoleculeBiologyComposite material

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