Sizes of multilamellar vesicles in shear. 2012

C-Y David Lu
Department of Chemistry, Center of Theoretical Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. cydlu@ntu.edu.tw

The dynamics of the multilamellar vesicle (MLV) is analyzed theoretically, where membrane interaction squeezes the solvent to flow between the neighboring membranes. With the applied affine shear, the dynamic free energy density of the MLV develops a minima, which selects the MLV size. The model predicts a terminal shear rate, below which the metastable MLV exists. The scaling relations for the MLV size and the terminal shear are both consistent with the experiments.

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