Deformations of lipid vesicles induced by attached spherical particles.
Wrapping of a spherical colloidal particle, located inside and outside a lipid vesicle, by the membrane which forms the wall of the vesicle is investigated. The process is studied for vesicles of different geometries: prolate, oblate, stomatocytes. We focus on the bending energy change and shape transformations induced by binding the membrane to the spherical particles. The ground-state shapes of vesicles are calculated within the framework of a Helfrich curvature energy functional.
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Institute of Physical Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warsaw, Poland.
D008055:Lipids; D008081:Liposomes; D013816:Thermodynamics
D008055:Lipids; D008081:Liposomes