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Rigid and Fluctuating Surfaces: A Series of Synchrotron X-ray Scattering Studies of Interacting Stacked Membranes

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Phase Transitions in Soft Condensed Matter

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In these lectures we discuss fluctuation phenomena encountered in interacting multilayered fluid membranes using synchrotron x-ray scattering as the primary tool. We consider very dilute Lα phases with inter-layer separations as large as ≈600 Å. While most Lα phases consist of flat membranes with large bending rigidity kc ≫ kBT, with their interlayer interactions determined by detailed microscopic interactions such as hydration and van der Waals, the stability of these phases is due to an effectively long-range interaction arising from the mutual hinderance of fluctuating membranes with a very small rigidity kc ≈ kBT. This regime, which because of its entropic origin exhibits universality, can be accessed from the microscopic regime by thinning and thus lowering the modulus kc of an initially rigid membrane.

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Safinya, C.R. (1989). Rigid and Fluctuating Surfaces: A Series of Synchrotron X-ray Scattering Studies of Interacting Stacked Membranes. In: Riste, T., Sherrington, D. (eds) Phase Transitions in Soft Condensed Matter. NATO ASI Series, vol 211. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0551-4_24

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