Solvent-driven formation of bolaamphiphilic vesicles.
We show that a spontaneous bending of single-layer bolaamphiphiles results from the frustration due to the competition between core-core and tail-solvent interactions. We find that spherical vesicles are stable under rather general assumptions on these interactions described within the Flory-Huggins theory. We consider also the deformation of the vesicles in an external magnetic field that has been recently experimentally observed.
Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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D008280:Magnetics; D015394:Molecular Structure; D012997:Solvents / Q000737:chemistry*; D013876:Thiophenes / Q000737:chemistry*
D012997:Solvents; D013876:Thiophenes