@inbook{d3a509ac4b5b488cab943623bd8aae07,
title = "A Beginner{\textquoteright}s Short Guide to Membrane Biophysics",
abstract = "This chapter provides a basic guide to the essentials of membrane biophysics. The review consists of three parts: The first part focuses on physicochemical aspects of biomembranes. The origin of the hydrophobic attraction that drives the self-assembly of lipids into large structures like membranes is explained, and an overview of the thermodynamic properties of bilayer membranes is given. The second part introduces the Helfrich model for the curvature elasticity of two-dimensional manifolds. This is the most commonly used framework for studying the mechanical properties of lipid membranes. The third part of the chapter is dedicated to molecular simulations of membranes. The principles of molecular dynamics simulations are explained, and the different modeling strategies for membranes, ranging from atomistic to highly coarse-grained lattice-based models, are reviewed. These different classes of models address membrane properties and processes across a wide spectrum of lengths and time scales.",
author = "Oded Farago",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021.",
year = "2021",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-88084-2_1",
language = "English",
series = "Necas Center Series",
publisher = "Birkhauser",
pages = "1--41",
booktitle = "Necas Center Series",
address = "Switzerland",
}