Dynamics of Domain Growth in Self-Assembled Fluid Vesicles
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-10 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
The dynamics of phase separation in multi-component bilayer fluid vesicles is investigated by means of large-scale dissipative particle dynamics. The model explicitly accounts for solvent particles, thereby allowing for the very first numerical investigation of the effects of hydrodynamics and area-to-volume constraints. We observed regimes corresponding to coalescence of flat patches, budding and vesiculation, and coalescence of caps. We point out that the area-to-volume constraint has a strong influence on crossovers between these regimes.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0406690,
title = {Dynamics of Domain Growth in Self-Assembled Fluid Vesicles},
author = {Mohamed Laradji and P. B. Sunil Kumar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0406690},
year = {2009}
}
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