Paolo Politi — ISC-CNR Firenze #
Dynamics of confined membranes #
The dynamics of a one-dimensional membrane confined between two walls is derived from an hydrodynamic model. 
The main ingredients of the evolution equation are the adhesion potential with the confining walls and the bending 
rigidity of the membrane. The resulting dynamics is frozen, with the membrane decomposing in adhesion patches on the two 
walls. If the system is strongly perturbed, a transition from frozen dynamics to coarsening may be observed. 
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In collaboration with Thomas Le Goff and Olivier Pierre-Louis (CNRS-Lyon).