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Dynamics of Flat Membranes and Flickering in Red Blood Cells

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The Structure and Conformation of Amphiphilic Membranes

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A theory of the dynamics of polymerized membranes in the flat phase is presented. We discuss the renormalization of the kinetic coefficients for the undulation and phonon modes due to hydrodynamic “backflow”. The long time behavior of the dynamic structure factor is given by stretched exponentials. We also study the dynamics of the thickness fluctuations in red blood cells (flicker phenomenon) taking into account the underlying polymerized spectrin skeleton. Qualitatively different dynamical behavior is predicted for spectrin skeletons isolated from their natural lipid environment.

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  1. Physics Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA

    E. Frey & D. R. Nelson

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  1. Institut für Festkörperforschung Forschungszentrum Jülich, W-5170, Jülich, Fed. Rep. of Germany

    Reinhard Lipowsky , Dieter Richter  & Kurt Kremer ,  & 

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Frey, E., Nelson, D.R. (1992). Dynamics of Flat Membranes and Flickering in Red Blood Cells. In: Lipowsky, R., Richter, D., Kremer, K. (eds) The Structure and Conformation of Amphiphilic Membranes. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 66. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84763-9_25

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