Ion and Molecule Transport in Membrane Systems

Abstract

Membranes plays enormous role in our life [...]

The Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics (PCCP) Section of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences in Its Publications: The First 300 Thematic Articles in the First 3 Years

“…This thematic area is associated with articles [ 12 , 15 , 20 , 21 , 26 , 50 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74 , 75 , 76 , 77 , 78 , 79 , 80 , 81 , 82 , 83 , 84 , 85 , 86 , 87 , 88 , 89 , 90 , 91 , 92 , 93 , 94 , 95 , 96 , 97 , 98 , 99 , 100 , 101 ], of which there are a total of 50. In contrast to the areas already discussed above, articles of all four types are presented here ( Table 5 ), although, here, too, the Original constitutes a clear majority over the other 3 types of articles.…”

“…In contrast to the areas already discussed above, articles of all four types are presented here ( Table 5 ), although, here, too, the Original constitutes a clear majority over the other 3 types of articles. The dominant feature of this thematic area was articles devoted to cell membranes, in general, and their electrochemistry, in particular; articles [ 26 , 50 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74 , 75 , 76 , 77 , 78 , 79 , 80 , 81 , 82 , 84 , 85 , 86 , 87 , 88 , 89 , 90 , 92 , 93 , 95 , 99 , 100 ] are devoted to this specific topic. In this connection, it is worth noting that this “membrane topic” turned out to be, generally, the most popular in comparison with all the others presented in the PCCP Section of the IJMS , within the array of 300 articles we are considering.…”

“…Standing apart, against this background, is the review [ 86 ], which provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between aquaporins (water-specific membrane channel proteins that regulate water homeostasis in cells and the body) and rhinological conditions; it focuses on the analysis of the mechanisms that connect them with each other. Since all of the above articles were included in two special issues, “Ion and Molecule Transport in Membrane Systems” and “Ion and Molecule Transport in Membrane Systems 2.0”, it is quite understandable that there are two editorials among them, namely [ 99 , 100 ]. Only less than 10 articles belong to the surface sciences proper, namely [ 12 , 15 , 20 , 21 , 83 , 91 , 96 , 97 , 98 ], and the topics and objects of research are also very diverse.…”

Extreme value statistics and Arcsine laws of Brownian motion in the presence of a permeable barrier

“…These barriers appear at various scales inhibiting diffusive movement in many physical and biological contexts, from multilayer electrodes [1][2][3] and water transport in rock pores [4] to drug delivery systems [5,6]. Permeable material can be found in many examples in cell biology whose function is to regulate the flux of biochemicals between spatial regions [7], such as the bilayer plasma membrane of eukaryotes [8][9][10] and the electrical gap junctions in neurons [11,12]. As well as being prominent in magnetic imaging techniques of water molecules diffusing through cellular compartments [13,14].…”

A numerical method for solving snapping out Brownian motion in 2D bounded domains

“…The mathematical analysis of single-particle diffusion through a semi-permeable interface is important for our understanding of transport phenomena in physical and biological systems. Such processes include molecular transport through lipid bilayers [2,3,4,5], the dynamics of gap junctions [6,7,8], thermal conduction in composite media [9,10,11], diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) [12,13,14,15] and drug delivery [16,17,18]. Furthermore, it was recently shown that the trafficking of neurotransmitter receptor proteins in the postsynaptic membrane of neurons can be mathematically formulated in terms of a reaction-diffusion system involving semipermeable membranes which separate the bulk of the neuronal membrane from the synaptic regions [19].…”