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Mass Transport across Membranes

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Transport in Plants III

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology ((PLANT,volume 3))

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It is the aim of this article to give an introduction to some of the basic concepts used in the theoretic treatment of transport processes across membranes. Section 1 is devoted to the thermodynamic treatment of membrane transport close to equilibrium in which the membrane is treated as a “black box”. The information about processes taking place within the membrane in its stationary state is derived from measurements of state parameters of its bulk phases as function of time. In order to gain insights into the physical basis of observed transport properties it is necessary to construct a suitable model of the membrane which is amenable to theoretical analysis. In Section 2 a brief review of the major membrane models is given and the model of the membrane with narrow pores is discussed in detail.

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Woermann, D. (1976). Mass Transport across Membranes. In: Stocking, C.R., Heber, U. (eds) Transport in Plants III. Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66417-5_13

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