Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2010-02-10
J. Chem. Phys. 132, 155104 (2010)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
21 pages, 12 figures. Submitted to J. Chem. Phys
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.3369005
We devise a soft, solvent-free, coarse-grained model for lipid bilayer membranes. The non-bonded interactions take the form of a weighted-density functional which allows us to describe the thermodynamics of self-assembly and packing effects of the coarse-grained beads in terms of a density expansion of the equation of state and the weighting functions that regularize the microscopic bead densities, respectively. Identifying the length and energy scales via the bilayer thickness and the thermal energy scale, kT, the model qualitatively reproduces key characteristics (e.g., bending rigidity, area per lipid molecules, and compressibility) of lipid membranes. We employ this model to study the main phase transition between the liquid and the gel phase of the bilayer membrane. We accurately locate the phase coexistence using free energy calculations and also obtain estimates for the bare and the thermodynamic line tension.
Hömberg Martin
Müller Marcus
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