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Charge-Reversal Instability in Mixed Bilayer Vesicles
Yi Chen, Philip Nelson
Bilayer vesicles form readily from mixtures of charged and neutral surfactants. When such a mixed vesicle binds an oppositely-charged object, its membrane partially demixes: the ad…
Electrostatic Repulsion of Positively Charged Vesicles and Negatively Charged Objects
Helim Aranda-Espinoza, Yi Chen, Nily Dan +4
A positively charged, mixed bilayer vesicle in the presence of negatively charged surfaces (for example, colloidal particles) can spontaneously partition into an adhesion zone of d…
Elasticity Theory of a Twisted Stack of Plates
C. S. O'Hern, Randall D. Kamien, T. C. Lubensky +1
We present an elastic model of B-form DNA as a stack of thin, rigid plates or base pairs that are not permitted to deform. The symmetry of DNA and the constraint of plate rigidity…
Measure Factors, Tension, and Correlations of Fluid Membranes
W. Cai, T. C. Lubensky, P. Nelson +1
We study two geometrical factors needed for the correct construction of statistical ensembles of surfaces. Such ensembles appear in the study of fluid bilayer membranes, though our…
Renormalization of Chiral Couplings in Tilted Bilayer Membranes
P. Nelson, T. Powers
We study the effects of chiral constituent molecules on the macroscopic shapes attained by lipid bilayer membranes. Such fluid membranes are beautiful examples of statistical ensem…