Open AccessSome new limiting vesicles and typical phase transforms and abruptions processes studied using the spontaneous-curvature model
Author(s) -
Xiaohua Zhou,
Shaoguang Zhang,
Yang JiQing,
QU Xue-min,
Yuansheng Liu,
Sigang Wang
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
wuli xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 1000-3290
DOI - 10.7498/aps.56.6137
Subject(s) - curvature , phase transition , phase (matter) , vesicle , limiting , materials science , surface (topology) , simple (philosophy) , biological system , physics , statistical physics , geometry , thermodynamics , mathematics , chemistry , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , quantum mechanics , membrane , biology , engineering , philosophy , epistemology
Through building several multi-symmetric initial shapes in Surface Evolver software, after refining them and doing a long time of evolvement step by step, we obtained some new budding vesicles with small energy whose coefficients are consistent with the theoretical values. Through changing the coefficient and scanning the direction of different shapes, we found a discontinuous phase transition and a reversible continuous phase transition and two new stable shapes. Furthermore, we obtained two kinds of starfish shaped abruption processes which have been supported by experiment.