Aggregates of two-dimensional vesicles: Rouleaux and sheets
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
Using both numerical and variational minimization of the bending and adhesion energy of two-dimensional lipid vesicles, we study their aggregation, and we find that the stable aggregates include an infinite number of vesicles and that they arrange either in a columnar or in a sheet-like structure. We calculate the stability diagram and we discuss the modes of transformation between the two types of aggregates, showing that they include disintegration as well as intercalation.
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@article{arxiv.0705.3020,
title = {Aggregates of two-dimensional vesicles: Rouleaux and sheets},
author = {P. Ziherl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.3020},
year = {2009}
}