The cohesive force across the fault plane is considered in order to understand the physical mechanism of rupture at the tip of a longitudinal-shear crack. The elastic field around the tip of a crack and the condition of rupture growth are systematically derived from the assumption that the cohesive force is given as a function of the displacement discontinuity. This assumption is more physically meaningful than those originally used by G.I. Barenblatt in 1959 and 1962. The stress field around the tip is calculated for several models of cohesive force, and is shown to be nonsingular even at the tip. The condition of rupture growth that is used to determine the rupture velocity turns out to be equivalent to the Griffith criterion and the relation employed by B. V. Kostrov in 1966, but the specific surface energy is defined more clearly in this paper.
Vibrational sum frequency generation (VSFG) spectroscopy was applied to investigate interaction between
an antibiotic, polymyxin B (PMB), and lipid monolayers at the air/water interface. The VSFG spectra in the
CH stretching region observed for the monolayer of the zwitterionic (or neutral) dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine
(DPPC) spread on pure water and for the monolayer spread on a PMB aqueous solution (10-6 M) are similar
to each other, indicating the absence of interaction between the DPPC monolayer and PMB. On the other
hand, the VSFG spectra of the monolayer of the anionic (or negatively charged) dipalmitoylphosphatidylglycerol
(DPPG) spread on the PMB solution give rise to a prominent peak at 2850 cm-1 due to a CH2 asymmetric
stretching mode of the alkyl group, which is absent in the spectra of the DPPG monolayer on pure water,
indicating that the binding of PMB to the DPPG monolayer induces the gauche defect of the alkyl group. The
result suggests that the gauche defect caused by the specific binding of PMB to negatively charged parts of
the cell membrane causes the increase in the fluidity and/or the permeability of the cell membrane, one of the
key factors in the antibiotic activity of PMB. The VSFG spectra in the OH stretching region observed for the
DPPC and DPPG monolayers on pure water are dominated by a broad band centered around 3200 cm-1,
indicating the presence of an ordered array of hydrogen-bonded water molecules associated with the hydrophilic
headgroups of the monolayers. The VSFG spectra in the OH stretching region observed for the DPPC monolayer
spread on the PMB aqueous solution (10-6 M) are more or less similar to those observed for the monolayer
on pure water. In contrast, the VSFG spectra of the DPPG monolayer on the PMB solution give only a very
weak or almost indiscernible band near 3200 cm-1. The binding of PMB to the interfacial region of the
DPPG monolayer cancels the electrostatic field, prohibiting the formation of the ordered array of the water
molecules in the interfacial region.
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