Fluid-membrane tethers: minimal surfaces and elastic boundary layers

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2002-01-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0201290v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

12 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.65.041901

Thin cylindrical tethers are common lipid bilayer membrane structures, arising in situations ranging from micromanipulation experiments on artificial vesicles to the dynamic structure of the Golgi apparatus. We study the shape and formation of a tether in terms of the classical soap-film problem, which is applied to the case of a membrane disk under tension subject to a point force. A tether forms from the elastic boundary layer near the point of application of the force, for sufficiently large displacement. Analytic results for various aspects of the membrane shape are given.

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