Abstract
Two interacting membranes are considered as two flat hydrophilic layers on their surfaces separated by an agueous solution at a certain distance. The van der Waals attractive inbteraction energy between the two bodies at a given separation distance depends on the nature (interaction coefficient) of the surface hydrophilic layers and its thickness. When the surface hydrophilic layer becomes sufficiently similar to the bulk hydrocarbon bodies in nature or the thickness of the surface hydrophilic layer becomes small enough, the attrative interaction energy becomes large and the two bodies could fuse and become one. A general theory for such mambrane fusion is given in terms of molecular interaction energy.
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