Membranes

Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
USA


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Some of Our Relevant Publications

Decomposition of the Height Function of Scherk's First Surface, R.D. Kamien. Appl. Math. Lett. 14 (2001) 797.

Dynamic Excitations in Membranes Induced by Optical Tweezers, R. Bar-Ziv, E. Moses, and P. Nelson. Biophys. J. 75 (1998) 294.

Stability of Texture and Shape of Circular Domains of Langmuir Monolayers, D. Pettey and T.C. Lubensky. Phys. Rev. E 59 (1999) 1834.

Nonlinear Elasticity of the Sliding Columnar Phase, C.S. O'Hern and T.C. Lubensky. Phys. Rev. E 58 (1998) 5948.

Hard Spheres in Vesicles: Curvature-Induced Forces and Particle-Induced Curvature, A.D. Dinsmore, D.T. Wong, Philip Nelson and A.G. Yodh. Phys. Rev. Lett. 80 (1998) 409.

Chiral Lyotropic Liquid Crystals: TGB Phases and Helicoidal Structures, Randall D. Kamien and T.C. Lubensky. J. Phys. II France 7 (1997) 157.

Spontaneous Expulsion of Giant Lipid Vesicles Induced by Laser Tweezers, J. David Moroz, Philip Nelson, Roy Bar-Ziv and Elisha Moses. Phys. Rev. Lett. 78 (1997) 386.

The Role of Bilayer Tilt Difference in Equilibrium Membrane Shapes, Udo Seifert, Julian Shillcock and Philip Nelson. Phys. Rev. Lett. 77 (1996) 5237.

Interactions between Membrane Inclusions on Fluctuating Membranes, Jeong-Man Park and T.C. Lubensky. J. Phys. I France 6 (1996) 1217.

Star Defects on Flat and Spherical Surfaces, David Pettey and T.C. Lubensky J. Phys. II France 3 (1993) 1571.