Entropy-driven tension and bending elasticity in condensed-fluid membranes
- 23 April 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 64 (17), 2094-2097
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.64.2094
Abstract
Sensitive micropipet methods have been used to measure the relation between tension and the projected surface area in fluid membranes of vesicles over a 4-order-of-magnitude range in tension (–10 dyn/cm). In the low-tension regime (
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