Comment on "Thermodynamics of vesicle growth and instability".
Fanelli and McKane [Phys. Rev. E 78, 051406 (2008)] recently described the growth of vesicles due to the accretion of lipid molecules onto their surface in terms of linear irreversible thermodynamics. They calculated the critical radius at which the shape of a spherical vesicle becomes unstable. Their treatment is different from those previously put forward and, in the following, we explain why we regard their thermodynamic description to be deficient.
Bozic
Bojan
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Institute of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Lipiceva 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. bojan.bozic@mf.uni-lj.si
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Sasa
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