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Biophysical Journal 55: 1017-1021 (1989)
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Viscoelastic relaxation of bilayer lipid membranes

II. Temperature dependence of relaxation time

J. C. Earnshaw and G. E. Crawford

ABSTRACT

Recent studies have demonstrated the high frequency exponential relaxation of a viscoelastic modulus of lipid membranes. It is shown that the temperature dependence of the relaxation time can be extracted from published data on the relevant modulus for solvent-free bilayer lipid membranes of glycerol monoöleate. The relaxation is fastest close to the membrane transition temperature, where the time scale is ~20 µs. Possible causes of the transitional minimum of this time scale are discussed.






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