Impermeability effects in three-dimensional vesicles
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-10 v2 Materials Science
Abstract
We analyse the effects that the impermeability constraint induces on the equilibrium shapes of a three-dimensional vesicle hosting a rigid inclusion. A given alteration of the inclusion and/or vesicle parameters leads to shape modifications of different orders of magnitude, when applied to permeable or impermeable vesicles. Moreover, the enclosed-volume constraint wrecks the uniqueness of stationary equilibrium shapes, and gives rise to pear-shaped or stomatocyte-like vesicles.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0405165,
title = {Impermeability effects in three-dimensional vesicles},
author = {Paolo Biscari and Silvia Maria Canevese and Gaetano Napoli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0405165},
year = {2009}
}
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16 pages, 7 figures