Pressure-temperature phase diagram for shapes of vesicles: A coarse-grained molecular dynamics study
Loading...
Penn collection
Departmental Papers (MSE)
Degree type
Discipline
Subject
biomechanics
biomembranes
biothermics
cellular biophysics
molecular dynamics method
phase diagrams
biomembranes
biothermics
cellular biophysics
molecular dynamics method
phase diagrams
Funder
Grant number
License
Copyright date
Distributor
Related resources
Author
Contributor
Abstract
Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations are performed to obtain the phase diagram for shapes of a vesicle with a variation in temperature and pressure difference across the membrane. Various interesting vesicle shapes are found, in particular, a series of shape transformations are observed for a vesicle with an initial spherical shape, which changes to a prolate shape, then an oblate shape, and then a stomatocyte shape, with either increasing temperature or decreasing pressure difference across the membrane.
Advisor
Date Range for Data Collection (Start Date)
Date Range for Data Collection (End Date)
Digital Object Identifier
Series name and number
Publication date
2009-10-06
Journal title
Volume number
Issue number
Publisher
Publisher DOI
Comments
Copyright 2009 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. Reprinted in: Pressure-temperature phase diagram for shapes of vesicles: A coarse-grained molecular dynamics study Ping Liu, Ju Li, and Yong-Wei Zhang, Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 143104 (2009), DOI:10.1063/1.3245307 Publisher URL: http://link.aip.org/link/?APPLAB/95/143104/1