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We devise a soft, solvent-free, coarse-grained model for lipid bilayermembranes. The non-bonded interactions take the form of a weighted-densityfunctional which allows us to describe the thermodynamics of self-assembly andpacking effects of the coarse-grained beads in terms of a density expansion ofthe equation of state and the weighting functions that regularize themicroscopic bead densities, respectively. Identifying the length and energyscales via the bilayer thickness and the thermal energy scale, kT, the modelqualitatively reproduces key characteristics (e.g., bending rigidity, area perlipid molecules, and compressibility) of lipid membranes. We employ this modelto study the main phase transition between the liquid and the gel phase of thebilayer membrane. We accurately locate the phase coexistence using free energycalculations and also obtain estimates for the bare and the thermodynamic linetension.

Main phase transition in lipid bilayers: phase coexistence and line tension in a soft, solvent-free, coarse-grained model