Spontaneous tubulation of membranes and vesicles reveals membrane tension generated by spontaneous curvature – Electronic Sup- plementary Information (ESI)
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In this appendix, the membrane is viewed as an ultrathin film bounded by two surfaces or membrane/water interfaces. These two surfaces are characterized by a certain surface tension that depends on the coverage of the adsorbed ‘particles’, which may be atomic ions, small molecules, or macromolecules such as peptides and proteins. For simplicity, I will focus on a single species of adsorbing particles; the case with several species of such particles has been discussed in Refs.1,2, albeit in a rather condensed manner.
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تاریخ انتشار 2012