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Theory of spontaneous vesicle formation in surfactant mixtures.

Abstract

The curvature elastic energy of bilayer vesicles formed by a mixture of two surfactants, which individually form either micelles or lamellar bilayer phases is described theoretically. In the limit of large bending elastic modulus K being much greater than the temperature T, the free energy is minimized by vesicles with different concentrations of the two surfactants in each monolayer of the bilayer. Vesicles are more stable than lameliar structures only when interactions or complexing of the two surfactants is taken into account.

Year: 1990 PMID： 17784490 DOI： 10.1126/science.248.4953.354

Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN： 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728

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1. Thermodynamics of membrane elasticity--a molecular level approach to one- and two-component fluid amphiphilic membranes, part II: applications.

Authors: M Hoffmann
Journal: Eur Phys J E Soft Matter Date: 2005-02-22 Impact factor: 1.890

2. Thermodynamics of membrane elasticity--a molecular level approach to one- and two-component fluid amphiphilic membranes, part I: theory.

Authors: M Hoffmann
Journal: Eur Phys J E Soft Matter Date: 2005-02-22 Impact factor: 1.890

Theory of spontaneous vesicle formation in surfactant mixtures.

1. Thermodynamics of membrane elasticity--a molecular level approach to one- and two-component fluid amphiphilic membranes, part II: applications.

2. Thermodynamics of membrane elasticity--a molecular level approach to one- and two-component fluid amphiphilic membranes, part I: theory.

3. Domain registration in raft-mimicking lipid mixtures studied using polymer-tethered lipid bilayers.

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6. Tubular membrane formation of binary giant unilamellar vesicles composed of cylinder and inverse-cone-shaped lipids.

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9. Size and structure of spontaneously forming liposomes in lipid/PEG-lipid mixtures.

10. Monolayer curvature stabilizes nanoscale raft domains in mixed lipid bilayers.