Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1999-06-23
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
12 pages, 2 figures. REVtex
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0217984999000713
A very recent observation on the membrane mediated attraction and ordered aggregation of colloidal particles bound to giant phospholipid vesicles (I. Koltover, J. O. R\"{a}dler, C. R. Safinya, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 82}, 1991(1999)) is investigated theoretically within the frame of Helfrich curvature elasticity theory of lipid bilayer fluid membrane. Since the concave or waist regions of the vesicle possess the highest local bending energy density, the aggregation of colloidal beads on these places can reduce the elastic energy in maximum. Our calculation shows that a bead in the concave region lowers its energy $\sim 20 k_B T$. For an axisymmetrical dumbbell vesicle, the local curvature energy density along the waist is equally of maximum, the beads can thus be distributed freely with varying separation distance.
Liu Ji-Xing
Liu Quan-Hui
Zhong-Can Ou-Yang
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