On the surface tension of fluctuating quasi-spherical vesicles

Details On the surface tension of fluctuating quasi-spherical vesicles On the surface tension of fluctuating quasi-spherical vesicles

2010-03-03

arxiv.org/abs/1003.0807v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

To appear in Eur. Phys. J. E, revised version

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We calculate the stress tensor for a quasi-spherical vesicle and we thermally average it in order to obtain the actual, mechanical, surface tension $\tau$ of the vesicle. Both closed and poked vesicles are considered. We recover our results for $\tau$ by differentiating the free-energy with respect to the proper projected area. We show that $\tau$ may become negative well before the transition to oblate shapes and that it may reach quite large negative values in the case of small vesicles. This implies that spherical vesicles may have an inner pressure lower than the outer one.

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