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

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 …

Plasma membranes appear as deformable systems wherein molecules are free to move and
diffuse giving rise to condensed microdomains (composed of ordered lipids, transmembrane …

This chapter explores selected aspects of multiscale geometry that arise in continuum
theories of mixtures and of biologically structured membranes, aspects that are amenable to …

The original idea for this book arose during the final stages of the first author's habilitation
defense, at which time the members of the jury suggested that it would be useful to collect …