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Fluctuation spectroscopy of giant unilamellar vesicles using confocal and phase contrast microscopy
Hammad A. Faizi, Cody J. Reeves, Vasil N. Georgiev +2
A widely used method to measure the bending rigidity of bilayer membranes is fluctuation spectroscopy, which analyses the thermally-driven membrane undulations of giant unilamellar…
Lipid membrane instability and poration driven by capacitive charging
Jonathan T. Schwalbe, Petia M. Vlahovska, Michael J. Miksis
A new model for the interaction of an electric pulse with a lipid membrane is proposed. Using this model we show that when a DC electric pulse is applied to an insulating lipid mem…
Electrohydrodynamic model of vesicle deformation in alternating electric fields
Petia Vlahovska, Ruben Serral Gracia, Said Aranda +1
We develop an analytical theory to explain the experimentally-observed morphological transitions of giant vesicles induced by AC electric fields (1). The model treats the inner and…
Vesicles in a Poiseuille flow
Gerrit Danker, Petia Vlahovska, Chaouqi Misbah
Vesicle dynamics in unbounded Poiseuille flow is analyzed using a small-deformation theory. Our analytical results quantitatively describe vesicle migration and provide new physica…
Dynamics of a viscous vesicle in linear flows
Petia M. Vlahovska, Ruben Serral Gracia
An analytical theory is developed to describe the dynamics of a closed lipid bilayer membrane (vesicle) freely suspended in a general linear flow. Considering a nearly spherical sh…