Elastic properties of polymer-decorated membranes
Elastic properties of polymer-decorated membranes
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DOI:
10.1051/jp2:1996142
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发表时间:
1996-10-01
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Lipowsky, R
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作者:
Hiergeist, C;Lipowsky, R
Polymers attached to one side of a fluid membrane induce a spontaneous curvature M(sp) of the membrane and change its elastic constants. For an ideal polymer in the mushroom regime, we determine M(sp) and the elastic constants kappa and kappa(G) by an explicit calculation of the entropy gain of a polymer anchored onto a curved surface. For anchored polymers in the brush regime, a scaling picture is used to determine M(sp) which increases monotonically with the coverage . For small and large , one has M(sp) similar to N-2(13/6) and M(sp) similar to N-1/7(13/21), respectively. Both in the mushroom and in the brush regime, the polymers increase the bending rigidity, whereas the Gaussian bending rigidity is decreased.