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cond-mat.soft2010
Forces and fluctuations in planar, spherical and tubular membranes
Camilla Barbetta
Lipid membranes constitute very particular materials: on the one hand, they break very easily under microscopical stretching; on the other hand, they are extremely flexible, presen…
cond-mat.soft2010
On the surface tension of fluctuating quasi-spherical vesicles
C. Barbetta, A. Imparato, J. -B. Fournier
We calculate the stress tensor for a quasi-spherical vesicle and we thermally average it in order to obtain the actual, mechanical, surface tension of the vesicle. Both closed…