Water surrounding lipid bilayers its role as a lubricant

Water surrounding lipid bilayers its role as a lubricant 

The lipid bilayer is one of nature s amazing devices that serves a multitude of purposes in sustaining life forms. Water is an integral part of a lipid bilayer. Water molecules surround lipid bilayers and effectively stabilize them from both the outside and the inside to support the cell walls. Unlike protein surfaces, here the surfaces that water molecules face are nearly homogeneous. Another major difference between the two systems is that the lipid surfaces are more mobile. The mobility is required as many chemicals need to be transported to the inside of the biological cells that are covered and nurtured within these bilayers. Water is clearly involved in the entire process of transfer, starting from the mobility of the walls. Here we discuss the properties of the water that surrounds protein bilayers. 

Lipid bilayers are, however, not rigid, as they serve as the gateway to the interior of the blood cells. All the matter needs to be transported back and forth 

In order to serve their biological purpose, the lipid bilayers need to be quite mobile and elastic to allow easy distortion. This is accomplished by the presence of 

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