Progress in Modern Biomedicine 2006;6(9):66-68

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1673-6273.2006.09.025

The Morphology of Vesicles of Higher Topological genus

Li-Qiang XIE 1 ; Fei ZHENG ; Jie-Xi ZHU ; Shao-Guang ZHANG

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Keywords

Vesicles; Genus 2; Morphology; Surface Evolver

Country

China

Language

Chinese

Abstract

The equilibrium configuration of fluid-phase phospholipid vesicles in aqueous solutions are controlled by bending elasticity. We exploited a method for calculating explicitly the stability of arbitrary symmetric shapes. The morphology of lipid vesicles with topological genus g=2, i.e. with two holes or two handles, is studied. We provided some stable shapes with results explicitly.