Solvent Driven Formation of Bolaamphiphilic Vesicles
arXiv:cond-mat/0512201 · doi:10.1021/jp0558021
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.
J. Phys. Chem. B, accepted