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Flexible membranes with anchored polymers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

Reinhard Lipowsky ,
Hans-Günther Döbereiner ,
Christin Hiergeist  and
Vasudevamurthy Indrani
Reinhard Lipowsky
Affiliation:
MPI für Kolloid- and Grenznächenforschung Kantstr. 55, D-14513 Teltow-Seehof
Hans-Günther Döbereiner
Affiliation:
MPI für Kolloid- and Grenznächenforschung Kantstr. 55, D-14513 Teltow-Seehof
Christin Hiergeist
Affiliation:
MPI für Kolloid- and Grenznächenforschung Kantstr. 55, D-14513 Teltow-Seehof
Vasudevamurthy Indrani
Affiliation:
MPI für Kolloid- and Grenznächenforschung Kantstr. 55, D-14513 Teltow-Seehof
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Abstract

Recent work on flexible membranes such as lipid bilayers with anchored polymers is briefly reviewed. These polymers exert bending moments onto the membranes and, thus, lead to a polymer–induced curvature. From the theoretical point of view, this curvature depends (i) on the membrane–polymer interactions; (ii) on the size of the polymers; and (iii) on the polymer coverage. Experimentally, these curvature effects can be deduced from systematic studies of polymer–decorated vesicles in which one monitors the vesicle shape with varying solvent conditions.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 463: Symposia EE – Statistical Mechanics in Physics and Biology , 1996 , 81
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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