Impermeability effects in three-dimensional vesicles

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/37/27/001MaRDI QIDQ3159017zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paolo Biscari, S. M. Canevese, Gaetano Napoli

Publication date 1 February 2005

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0405165

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biophysics (92C05)

Abstract: We analyse the effects that the impermeability constraint induces on the equilibrium shapes of a three-dimensional vesicle hosting a rigid inclusion. A given alteration of the inclusion and/or vesicle parameters leads to shape modifications of different orders of magnitude, when applied to permeable or impermeable vesicles. Moreover, the enclosed-volume constraint wrecks the uniqueness of stationary equilibrium shapes, and gives rise to pear-shaped or stomatocyte-like vesicles.

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