Solvent Driven Formation of Bolaamphiphilic Vesicles
Soft Condensed Matter
2011-01-14 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We show that a spontaneous bending of single layer bolaamphiphiles results from the frustration due to the competition between core-core and tail-solvent interactions. We find that spherical vesicles are stable under rather general assumptions on these interactions described within the Flory-Huggins theory. We consider also the deformation of the vesicles in an external magnetic field that has been recently experimentally observed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0512201,
title = {Solvent Driven Formation of Bolaamphiphilic Vesicles},
author = {M. I. Katsnelson and A. Fasolino},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0512201},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
J. Phys. Chem. B, accepted