Cell membranes, mediator of many biological mechanisms from adhesion and metabolism
up to mutation and infection, are highly dynamic and heterogeneous environments …

In this paper, the authors introduce a hierarchic fractal model to describe bone
hereditariness. Indeed, experimental data of stress relaxation or creep functions obtained by …

Clustering of ligand-binding receptors of different types on thickened isles of the cell
membrane, namely lipid rafts, is an experimentally observed phenomenon. Although its …

The anomalous transport of a viscous fluid across a porous media with power-law scaling of
the geometrical features of the pores is dealt with in the paper. It has been shown that …

This paper deals with equilibrium problems in non-linear dissipative inelasticity of damaged
membranes. The inelastic constitutive law is obtained by modifying the classical constitutive …

Langmuir monolayers are advantageous systems used to investigate how lipid membranes
get involved in the physiology of many living structures, such as collapse phenomena in …

In this work, some implications of a recent model for the mechanical behavior of biological
membranes (Deseri et al. in Continuum Mech Thermodyn 20 (5): 255–273, 2008) are …

In this work lipid ordering phase changes arising in planar membrane bilayers is
investigated both accounting for elasticity alone and for effective viscoelastic response of …

The complexity and variety of geometrical changes in physical systems at submacroscopic
levels has led to various approaches to the broadening of the classical theory of finite …

Standard measures of local deformation such as deformation gradient, strain, elastic
deformation, and plastic deformation are dimensionless. However, many macroscopic and …