Abstract
We propose a model to describe the physical mechanisms by which chemical substances separate in the vicinity of a membrane. We assume that the adsorption of the different components of a complex liquid on a membrane is governed by interactions that couple them to the spontaneous curvature of the membrane. This problem is relevant to many fields in science, as cell constriction and division, micelles with cosurfactants, holometamorphosis, and morphogenesis in general.
- Received 1 July 2011
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.84.061922
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