Microvesicles are members of the family of extracellular vesicles shed from the plasma
membrane of activated or apoptotic cells. Microvesicles were initially characterised by their …

This review is addressed to the phase inversion process, which is not only a common, low-
energy route to make stable emulsions for a variety of industrial products spanning from food …

The design of next-generation nanobiomaterials requires precise engineering of both
physical properties of the core material and chemical properties of the material's surface to …

The importance of curvature as a structural feature of biological membranes has been
recognized for many years and has fascinated scientists from a wide range of different …

Endocytosis is a ubiquitous eukaryotic membrane budding, vesiculation and internalization
process fulfilling numerous roles including compensation of membrane area increase after …

To alter and adjust the shape of the plasma membrane, cells harness various mechanisms
of curvature generation. Many of these curvature generation mechanisms rely on the …

The surface buckling on elastic bilayer towards a higher tunable morphological transition
has attracted considerable interests. While there are many studies on the 2-dimensional …

Cell membranes experience frequent stretching and poking: from cytoskeletal elements,
from osmotic imbalances, from fusion and budding of vesicles, and from forces from the …

The bending energy of the lipid membrane is central to biological processes involving
vesicles, such as endocytosis and exocytosis. To illustrate the role of bending energy in …

Biological membranes are composed of isotropic and anisotropic curved nanodomains.
Anisotropic membrane components, such as Bin/Amphiphysin/Rvs (BAR) superfamily …