When Lipid Membranes Envelop Micron Sized Particles
Researchers in the Laboratory for Soft and Living Materials, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Bayreuth and the Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS) in Germany, have developed a new model system to study the interaction of lipid membranes and micron sized particles. The model system was used to study when and how microparticles are enveloped by a lipid membrane.
For more information see the paper published in external pagePhysical Review Letters and also check out the article in external pagePhysics Magazine on the paper.
Wrapping of Microparticles by Floppy Lipid Vesicles, Hendrik T. Spanke, Robert W. Style, Claire François-Martin, Maria Feofilova, Manuel Eisentraut, Holger Kress, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo, and Eric R. Dufresne, 2020, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 198102, external pageDOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.198102