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| Title: | Adhesion of Two-component Vesicle Membranes |
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| Seminar: | SIAM Student Chapter Seminar |
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| Speaker: | Yanxiang Zhao, Department of Mathematics, Penn State University |
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| Abstract: |
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| We study the adhesion of multi-component vesicle membrane to flat/curved substrates. By introducing a phase field function, we can distinguish the different components of the vesicle membranes, and formulate the total energy in terms of phase field function to describe the equilibrium shapes of the vesicle membranes. By numerically solving the equilibrium equations (Euler-Lagrange equations), we find a number of representative membrane shapes with a variety of parameter values. We discuss the stability of the vesicle membranes enduring the adhesion, and reveal that adhesion can promote the phase separation for the vesicle membranes. |
Room Reservation Information
| Room Number: | MB106 |
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| Date: | 09 / 07 / 2010 |
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| Time: | 12:10pm - 01:25pm |
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