Membrane curvature induced by polymers and colloids

Reinhard Lipowsky, Hans-Günther Döbereiner, Christin Hiergeist and Vasudevamurthy Indrani

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1998, vol. 249, issue 1, 536-543

Abstract: Polymers and colloids change the ‘spontaneous’ curvature of flexible membranes such as lipid bilayers. Two general cases will be discussed: (i) The effect of single polymers or colloids which are anchored or adsorbed to the membranes and exert bending moments on the adjacent membrane segments; and (ii) the effect of unbalanced tensions in the two membrane/water interfaces which arise, e.g., from polymer brushes and from non-anchored polymers or colloids.

Keywords: Membranes; Anchored and absorbed polymers; Spontaneous curvature (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(97)00513-X

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