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Overal, G.B. (2010)

Membrane Transport

Bachelor thesis | Wiskunde (BSc)

This thesis is about transport of solutes across a biological membrane, a ‘lipid bilayer’. The goal is to create a template of differential equations, which is applicable to many types of molecules and ways of transport. The approach aims to be abstract but aplicable and built up entirely from biophysics and clearly stated, reasonable assumptions. Free diffusion over the membrane will be considered explicitely, from which Ficks law will be derived. An ion-trap mechanism will also be specifically considered.

Author

Overal, G.B.

Faculty

Faculty of Science

Supervisors

Hille, S.C.

ECTS Credits

18

Language

en