Diffusion-controlled reactions in two-dimensional fluids: discussion of measurements of lateral diffusion of lipids in biological membranes

✍ Scribed by K. Razi Naqvi

• Book ID: 103010783
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1974
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 584 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(74)80073-4

✦ Synopsis

Differences betwee;l the reaction kinetics of diffusion'kontrolled reclctlons in two and three dimensions are examined, and expressions for the nte of a diffusionxontrolled reaction in a two-dimensional fluid are derived. A method of arulysing the results of some recent investigations of lateral diffusion of lipids in biological membrines is'presentcd. . I_ Introduction the experimentally measured bimolecular reaction rate and the tlwo-dimensional diffusion coefficient(s) of the UnQl quite recent!y, diffusion-controlled reactions were studied solely in solutions where the solvent solute(s): ,tould be idealised as an inert isotropic continuum, impo&g no Constraints on the directions (or mag-2. Theory nitudes) of the diffusive displacements executed by the readting spdcie;. As a result of extensive theoret-