MEMBRANE  BIOPHYSICS
 AS VIEWED FROM EXPERIMENTAL BILAYER
LIPID MEMBRANES
(Planar Lipid Bilayers and Spherical Liposomes)

Published by Elsevier, Amsterdam and New York, 2000, 648 pp.



Chapter 3

Membrane Biophysics -- Basic Principles

‘The wages of change is life!”

3.1 Thermodynamics
3.2 Kinetics
3.3 Interfacial Chemistry
3.4 Bioelectrochemistry
 

General References

E. A. Guggenheim, Thermodynamics, 2nd ed. Wiley, New York, 1950
A. W. Adamson, The Physical Chemistry of Surfaces, 2nd editon, Wiley,  NY , 1967
H. T. Tien, Bilayer Lipid Membranes (BLM): Theory and Practice,  Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1974
D. E. Metzler, Biochemistry: The Chemical Reactions of Living Cells,  Academic Press, NY, 1977
S. G. Davison (ed.), Progress in Surface Science, Vols. 4,8,19(3),23(4), 30(1/2),41(4),47(1/2),49(2), Pergamon Press, NY, 1973, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1995
M. Blank (ed.), Electrical double Layers in Biology, Plenum, NY, 1986
I. M. Klotz, Introduction to Biomolecular Energetics, Academic Press, New York, 1986
A. A. Marino (ed.), Modern Bioelectricity, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1988
K. L. Mittal and D. O. Shah (eds.), Surfactants in Solution, Vols. 8, 11, Plenum Press, NY, 1986, 1991
H. Gutfreund, Kinetics for the Life Sciences, Cambridge University Press, 1995
 

Specific References

1. M. Kerker (ed.), Surface Chemistry and Colloids, Vol. 7, MTP International Review of Science (A. D. Buckingham, Consultant Editor),  Butterworths, London, 1972, Chapters 1 and 2
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Some recent references pertinent to this chapter are cited below

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