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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL E
Volume 5, Issue 4, Pages 403-414Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s101890170047
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Polymers, which are attached to a membrane at one of their ends, exert an entropic pressure, which curves the membrane away from the polymers. It is shown that adsorption which arises from a short-ranged potential between the polymer and the membrane has a large influence on the curvature of the membrane, leading to a decrease of the entropically induced curvature. If one ignores the finite size of the anchor segment, the polymer-induced curvature does not change sign and vanishes in the limit of strong adsorption and a pure contact potential. If one includes the finite size of the anchor segment, the membrane beads towards the polymer for sufficiently strung adsorption.
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