Publication Date:
1999-07-20
Description:
A positively charged, mixed bilayer vesicle in the presence of negatively charged surfaces (for example, colloidal particles) can spontaneously partition into an adhesion zone of definite area and another zone that repels additional negative objects. Although the membrane itself has nonnegative charge in the repulsive zone, negative counterions on the interior of the vesicle spontaneously aggregate there and present a net negative charge to the exterior. Beyond the fundamental result that oppositely charged objects can repel, this mechanism helps to explain recent experiments on surfactant vesicles.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Aranda-Espinoza -- Chen -- Dan -- Lubensky -- Nelson -- Ramos -- Weitz -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Jul 16;285(5426):394-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA. Groupe de Dynamique des Phases Condensees, Case 26, Universite de Mo.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10411499" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
