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Recent progress in cartilage lubrication
Weifeng Lin, Jacob Klein
Healthy articular cartilage, covering the ends of bones in major joints such as hips and knees, presents the most efficiently-lubricated surface known in nature, with friction coef…
Cell-inspired, massive electromodulation of interfacial energy dissipation
Yu Zhang, Di Jin, Ran Tivony +2
Transient electric fields across cell bilayer membranes can lead to electroporation, as well as to cell fusion, and have been extensively studied. We find that transmembrane electr…
Multi-lipid synergy in synovial lubrication: natural redundancy vs. natural selection
Yifeng Cao, Di Jin, Nir Kampf +1
The very low sliding friction of articular cartilage in the major synovial joints such as hips and knees is crucial for their well-being, and has been attributed to lubrication by…
Electric-field-induced topological changes in multilamellar and in confined lipid membranes
Di Jin, Yu Zhang, Jacob Klein
It is well known that lipid membranes respond to a threshold transmembrane electric field through a reversible mechanism called electroporation, where hydrophilic water pores form…
Tuning energy dissipation via topologically electro-convoluted lipid-membrane boundary layers
Di Jin, Jacob Klein
It was recently discovered that friction between surfaces bearing phosphatidylcholine (PC) lipid bilayers can be increased by two orders of magnitude or more via an externally-appl…