Vesicles consisting of a bilayer membrane of amphiphilic lipid molecules are remarkably
flexible surfaces that show an amazing variety of shapes of different symmetry and topology …

Current research into the morphology of lipid membranes focuses on three areas: first, the
transformations and fluctuations of the shape of freely suspended vesicles; second, the …

Lipid membranes are abundant in living organisms, where they constitute a surrounding
shell for cells and their organelles. There are many circumstances in which the deformations …

The effect of thermal fluctuations on the properties of fluid vesicles is studied using Monte
Carlo simulations and scaling arguments. It is shown that the commonly used discretization …

A bstract We revisit the effective field theory of long relativistic strings such as confining flux
tubes in QCD. We derive the Polchinski-Strominger interaction by a calculation in static …

We present a unified continuum-level model for bilayer energetics that includes the effects of
bending, compression, lipid orientation (tilting relative to the monolayer surface normal), and …

The effect of amphiphilic diblock copolymers of several molecular weights on the structure
and phase behavior of ternary amphiphilic systems (water, oil, and nonionic surfactant) is …

Growth and folding in one-layered model tissue sheets are studied in a stochastic, lattice-
free single cell model which considers the discrete cellular structure of the tissue, and in a …

Vesicles are closed surfaces of bilayer membranes. Their mean shapes and fluctuations are
governed by the competition of curvature energy and geometrical constraints on the …

The thermal behavior of membranes—surfaces of nearly vanishing tension—depends
strongly on their internal state, which can be either polymerized, fluid, crystalline, or hexatic …