THEORY OF SPONTANEOUS VESICLE FORMATION IN SURFACTANT MIXTURES

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作者
SAFRAN, SA
PINCUS, P
ANDELMAN, D
机构
[1] UNIV CALIF SANTA BARBARA,DEPT MAT,SANTA BARBARA,CA 93106
[2] TEL AVIV UNIV,SCH PHYS & ASTRON,IL-69978 TEL AVIV,ISRAEL
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10.1126/science.248.4953.354
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
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. Vesides are more stable than lamellar structures only when interactions or complexing of the two surfactants is taken into account.
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