The European Physical Journal E

Multiple stalk formation as a pathway of defect-induced membrane fusion p. 3

Deformability of poly(amidoamine) dendrimers p. 7

Stretching of semiflexible polymers with elastic bonds p. 17

AFM studies on Langmuir-Blodgett films of cholesterol p. 35

Behavior of the layer compression modulus as a function of frequency near the nematic-smectic-A and re-entrant nematic-smectic-A phase transitions p. 43

Theory of the incommensurate smectic-A phases in dimesogenic liquid crystals p. 49

Molecular-dynamics simulations with explicit hydrodynamics I: On the friction coefficients of deformed polymers p. 55

Variational theory for a single polyelectrolyte chain revisited p. 67

Blobs, channels and “cigars”: Morphologies of liquids at a step p. 79

Frustrated rotations in nematic monolayers p. 91

Dielectric behaviour of graded spherical cells with an intrinsic dispersion p. 97