Saša Svetina

TL;DR: A procedure is developed to calculate red blood cell and phospholipid vesicle shapes within the bilayer couple model of the membrane and the spontaneous membrane curvature (C0) and compressibility of membrane leaflest can be incorporated into the model.

TL;DR: Measurements of kc based on measurements of tether radius as a function of force and the contribution from the nonlocal bending stiffness can be detected by measuring the change in the aspiration pressure required to establish equilibrium with increasing tether length are revealed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a phenomenological expression for the energy of the interaction between an inclusion and local curvature of the surrounding membrane is proposed, and assuming thermodynamic equilibrium, the free energy of inclusions, and the consistently related lateral and orientational distributions of the inclusions are obtained using statistical mechanical methods.

TL;DR: A theoretical analysis is presented of the formation of membrane tethers from micropipette-aspirated phospholipid vesicles, recognizing that local bending energy by itself does not stabilize the vesicle geometry, and that in the limit as the relative expansivity modulus becomes infinitely large, a tether cannot be formed.

TL;DR: In this article, a four-particle cluster approximation for the free energy of ferroelectric K$H 2$P${\mathrm{O} 4} was obtained, taking into account the overlap of the protonic wave functions between the two sites in a hydrogen bond as well as short-range and long-range forces and a part of proton-lattice interactions.