Title Stabilization of Membrane Pores by Packing

Details Title Stabilization of Membrane Pores by Packing Title Stabilization of Membrane Pores by Packing

2006-04-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0604060v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.73.060101

We present a model for pore stabilization in membranes without surface tension. Whereas an isolated pore is always unstable (since it either shrinks tending to re-seal or grows without bound til to membrane disintegration), it is shown that excluded volume interactions in a system of many pores can stabilize individual pores of a given size in a certain range of model parameters. For such a multipore membrane system, the distribution of pore size and associated pore lifetime are calculated within the mean field approximation. We predict that, above certain temperature when the effective line tension becomes negative, the membrane exhibits a dynamic sieve-like porous structure.

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