Fluid Membranes Repel One Another; Solid Membranes May Not Crumple
AUG 01, 1989
DOI: 10.1063/1.2811108
A membrane that is not rigid in the plane, or has zero in‐plane shear modulus, is said to be fluid; one that does have a nonzero shear modulus in the plane is said to be solid‐like. A fluid membrane shaped, say, like a rectangle will be easily deformed when antiparallel forces are applied along two of its parallel edges. In many cases the interesting excitations, or conformations, of a fluid membrane arise from out‐of‐plane bending.
© 1989. American Institute of Physics
