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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Spontaneous Curvature"”.
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Light-induced transformations in biomembranes
… the membrane area and generation of a positive spontaneous curvature. First, we characterize the partitioning of F-azo in a single-component membrane using both experimental and computational approaches. The partition coefficient calculated from molecular dynamic simulations agrees with …
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Self -Assembly Between Biomacromolecules and Lipids
… that the effect of ion binding on lipid's spontaneous curvature is sufficient to explain the lamellar to inverted hexagonal transition. Finally, we studied the interaction of anionic DNA with zwitterionic lipids at the presence of multivalent ions. Polymorphism of phases was found depending …
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Interfaces and Fluctuations in Diblock Copolymer Melts and Ternary Mixtures with Homopolymers
… mixtures. We show that the sign of the spontaneous curvature of an asym- metric diblock copolymer monolayer in these ternary mixtures is controlled by competition between swelling and stretching of copolymer brushes. We explore the phase behavior in highly swollen limit using the …
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Statistical Mechanical Models Of Virus Capsid Assembly
… many identical units assembling spontaneously into an icosahedrally symmetric (rather than amorphous) shell-makes the problem particularly interesting. We take a look at the existing physical assembly models in light of the question of how a particular assembly target can be …
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From Spheres to Sheets: Colloidal Hydrodynamics, Thermodynamics, and Statistical Inference
… a range of dimensionless areas and dimensionless spontaneous curvatures. Notably, as spontaneous curvature is increased, it is found that axisymmetry is broken. The constrained normal modes of the sheets are also computed and shed light on the behavior of fluctuations. Additionally, we perform …
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Investigations on the Behaviour and Properties of Different Types of Unilamellar Vesicles
The present work is a study that concentrates on spontaneous or quasi-spontaneous formation of vesicles in the case of single chained oleate surfactant and mixed vesicles of catanionic aggregation of oleate with some cationic surfactants, with a focus on the phase behaviour. Aqueous solution of 200 …
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Light-triggered rupture and magnetically driven transport of lipid vesicles for controlled release and directed delivery of therapeutics
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01