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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 107, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.098101
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- National Science Foundation [CMMI-1028530]
- KIMM-Brown I-CTC project
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn [1028530] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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A fundamental understanding of cell-nanomaterial interaction is of essential importance to nano-medicine and safe applications of nanotechnology. Here we investigate the adhesive wrapping of a soft elastic vesicle by a lipid membrane. We show that there exist a maximum of five distinct wrapping phases based on the stability of full wrapping, partial wrapping, and no wrapping states. The wrapping phases depend on the vesicle size, adhesion energy, surface tension of membrane, and bending rigidity ratio between vesicle and membrane. These results are of immediate interest to the study of vesicular transport and endocytosis or phagocytosis of elastic particles into cells.
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