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Molecular Motion at Soft and Hard Interfaces:
From Phospholipid Bilayers to Polymers and Lubricants

Spatially resolved and time-resolved understanding of complex fluid situations compose a new frontier in physical chemistry. Here we draw attention to the significance of spatially resolving systems whose ensemble average differs fundamentally from the spatially resolved individual elements. We take examples from the field of fluid phospholipid bilayers, to which macromolecules adsorb; the field of polymer physics, when flexible chains adsorb to the solidliquid interface; and from the field of lubrication, when two solids are squeezed close together with confined fluid retained between them.

References

  1. Steve Granick, Sung Chul Bae, Bo Wang, Subhalakshmi Kumar, Juan Guan, Changqian Yu, Kejia Chen, and James Kuo, "Single-Molecule Methods in Polymer Science," J. Polym. Sci. Polym. Phys. Ed. 48, 2542 (2010) [PDF].
  2. Bo Wang, Juan Guan, Stephen M. Anthony, Sung Chul Bae, Kenneth S. Schweizer, and Steve Granick, "Confining Potential When a Biopolymer Filament Reptates," Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 118301 (2010) [PDF].
  3. Bo Wang, Stephen M. Anthony, Sung Chul Bae, Steve Granick, "Anomalous Yet Brownian," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 106, 15160 (2009). [PDF].
  4. S. Granick and S. C. Bae, "Molecular Motion at Soft and Hard Interfaces: from Phospholipid Bilayers to Polymers and Lubricants," Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 58, 353 (2007). [PDF]
  5. L. Zhang, S. Granick, "Slaved diffusion in phospholipid bilayers", Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 102, 9118 (2005). [PDF] [In the news]

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