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Possible ways of producing bilayer vesicles are reviewed from the theoretical point of view. The emphasis is on vesiculation driven by a negative bending energy of spherical vesicles, called spontaneous vesiculation. A new model is presented to explain the existence of onions, i.e. concentric spheres of equidistant membranes.
The shape of mechanically pierced giant vesicles is studied to obtain the elastic modulus of Gaussian curvature of egg lecithin bilayers. It is argued that such experiments are governed by an apparent modulus, κ¯ app , not the true modulus of Gaussian curvature, κ¯. A theory of κ¯ app is proposed, regarding the pierced bilayer vesicle as a closed monolayer vesicle. The quantity measured,...
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