Abstract
Understanding and controlling vesicle shapes is fundamental challenge in biophysics and materials design. In this paper, we employ the Monte Carlo method to investigate the shape of soft vesicle induced by semiflexible polymer outside in two dimensions. The effect of bending stiffness of polymer and the strength of attractive interaction between vesicle and polymer on the shape of vesicle is discussed in detail in the present paper. It is found that the shape of vesicle is influenced by and . Typical shape of vesicles is observed, such as circular, cigar-like, double vesicle, and racquet-like. To engineer vesicle shape transformations is helpful for exploiting the richness of vesicle geometries for desired applications.
Highlights
Vesicles have existed since the first cells, and they are concerned with many biological processes and materials science, and they can be exploited for multitude of functionalizations in diverse fields, notably in DNA transfection of target cell, drug delivery [1,2], templating nanochemistry [3,4], micro-reactors [5], and the realization of relevant biological processes like endocytosis via the shape transformations of cell membrane [6]
The influence of semiflexible polymer outside vesicle on the vesicle shape is studied by Monte Carlo method in the paper
The results presented here provide valuable insights to various biological processes, including cell motility, cell shape, and cell functions
Summary
Vesicles have existed since the first cells, and they are concerned with many biological processes and materials science, and they can be exploited for multitude of functionalizations in diverse fields, notably in DNA transfection of target cell, drug delivery [1,2], templating nanochemistry [3,4], micro-reactors [5], and the realization of relevant biological processes like endocytosis via the shape transformations of cell membrane [6]. The past studies pay more attention to the effect of flexible polymers on the vesicle shape.
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