Kinetics of Vesicle Growth
Biological Physics
2018-12-11 v2 Soft Condensed Matter
Subcellular Processes
Abstract
A mechanism is proposed for the growth of vesicles dispersed in a liquid solvent and a size distribution function is obtained for the vesicles, both from the first principles calculations. This distribution function is shown to be positively skewed and evolving in time obeying a Fokker-Planck type equation. The critical size of the spherical vesicles is shown to grow in time with an exponent of 0.25. A constant is suggested that characterizes how easily a vesicle can absorb amphiphiles into its periphery.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1810.06459,
title = {Kinetics of Vesicle Growth},
author = {Bijit Singha},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.06459},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
8 pages, 2 figures