Stability of inverse bicontinuous cubic phases in lipid-water mixtures

Details Stability of inverse bicontinuous cubic phases in lipid-water mixtures Stability of inverse bicontinuous cubic phases in lipid-water mixtures

2000-09-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0009025v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85: 1472-1475 (2000)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

Revtex, 4 pages with 3 EPS-figures included

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1472

We investigate the stability of seven inverse bicontinuous cubic phases ($G$, $D$, $P$, $C(P)$, $S$, $I-WP$, $F-RD$) in lipid-water mixtures based on a curvature model of membranes. Lipid monolayers are described by parallel surfaces to triply periodic minimal surfaces. The phase behavior is determined by the distribution of the Gaussian curvature on the minimal surface and the porosity of each structure. Only $G$, $D$ and $P$ are found to be stable, and to coexist along a triple line. The calculated phase diagram agrees very well with experimental results for 2:1 lauric acid/DLPC.

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