Solid-supported lipid multilayers: Structure factor and fluctuations
arXiv:1504.02260 · doi:10.1140/epje/i2003-10063-1
Abstract
We present a theoretical description of the thermal fluctuations in a solid-supported stack of lipid bilayers, for the case of vanishing surface tension $γ= 0$ and in the framework of continuous smectic elasticity. The model is successfully used to model the reflectivity profile of a thin (16 bilayers) DMPC sample under applied osmotic pressure and the diffuse scattering from a thick (800 bilayers) stack. We compare our model to previously existing theories.