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Effect of chain length and asymmetry on material properties of bilayer membranes
Authors:Illya G  Lipowsky R  Shillcock J C
Affiliation:Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany. illya@mpikg-golm.mpg.de
Abstract:Dissipative particle dynamics is used to extract the material parameters (bending and area stretch moduli) of a bilayer membrane patch. Some experiments indicate that the area stretch modulus of lipid vesicles varies little as the chain length of the lipids composing the bilayer increases. Here we show that making the interactions between the hydrophilic head groups of the model amphiphiles proportional to the hydrophobic tail length reproduces the above result for the area stretch modulus. We also show that the area stretch modulus of bilayers composed of amphiphiles with the same number of tail beads but with asymmetric chains is less than that of bilayers with symmetric chains. The effects on the bilayer density and lateral stress profiles of changes to the amphiphile architecture are also presented.
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