4 papers
Dialectics of antimicrobial peptides II: Theoretical models of pore formation and membrane protection
Oleg V. Kondrashov, Marta V. Volovik, Zaret G. Denieva +5
Amphipathic peptides are considered promising antibiotics because of their ability to form pores in bacterial membranes. In two companion papers, we analyzed both experimentally an…
Additional contributions to elastic energy of lipid membranes: Tilt-curvature coupling and curvature gradient
Konstantin V. Pinigin, Peter I. Kuzmin, Sergey A. Akimov +1
Lipid bilayer membranes are flexible thin laterally fluid films consisting of two unimolecular layers of lipids. On spatial scales much larger than the bilayer thickness, the membr…
Classes of metastable Thermodynamic Quantum Time Crystals
Sergei I. Mukhin, Timur R. Galimzyanov
We found that thermodynamic quantum time crystals in fermi systems, defined as quantum orders oscillating periodically in the imaginary Matsubara time with zero mean, are metastabl…
Microscopic Description of Thermodynamics of Lipid Membrane at Liquid-Gel Phase Transition
Boris Kheyfets, Timur Galimzyanov, Sergei Mukhin
A microscopic model of the lipid membrane is constructed that provides analytically tractable description of the physical mechanism of the first order liquid-gel phase transition.…