Interplay between surface and bending energy helps membrane protrusion formation
arXiv:1908.00712 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.100.020401
Abstract
We consider a one-dimensional elastic membrane, which is pushed by growing filaments. The filaments tend to grow by creating local protrusions in the membrane and this process has surface energy and bending energy costs. Although it is expected that with increasing surface tension and bending rigidity, it should become more difficult to create a protrusion, we find that for a fixed bending rigidity, as the surface tension increases, protrusions are more easily formed. This effect also gives rise to nontrivial dependence of membrane velocity on the surface tension, characterized by a dip and a peak. We explain this unusual phenomenon by studying in detail the interplay of the surface and the bending energy and show that this interplay is responsible for a qualitative shape change of the membrane, which gives rise to the above effect.
arXiv comment13 pages, 11 figures, Contains Supplementary Material
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