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Size Distributions of Fluid Membrane Vesicles Far From Equilibrium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

Leonardo Golubović  and
Mirjana Golubović
Leonardo Golubović
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506
Mirjana Golubović
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506
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Abstract

We investigate nonequilibrium behavior of a polydisperse ensemble of fluid membrane vesicles by means of a diffusive Boltzmann transport equation which, incorporates vesicle diffusion and the reactions between vesicles. This approach is used to study the time evolution of the size distribution of an initially monodisperse vesicle ensemble and its interesting properties such as the internal aqueous, encapsulated volume. We investigate various nonequilibrium paths such ensembles may follow during the equilibration process.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 463: Symposia EE – Statistical Mechanics in Physics and Biology , 1996 , 103
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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