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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
Volume 16, Issue 22, Pages S2061-S2070Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/16/22/004
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Binding of a spherical colloid to a fluid membrane, which is an interplay between the energies of adhesion and elastic deformation, is studied within the framework of a Helfrich Hamiltonian. The solution of the full nonlinear shape equations for the membrane profile reveals a continuous binding and a discontinuous envelopment transition, the latter with a tension dependent substantial energy barrier. In the bending dominated regime this scenario is analytically confirmed by a small gradient expansion.
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