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Solvent Driven Formation of Bolaamphiphilic Vesicles

M. I. Katsnelson, A. Fasolino

cond-mat.softarXiv:cond-mat/0512201

Abstract

We show that a spontaneous bending of single layer bolaamphiphiles results from the frustration due to the competition between core-core and tail-solvent interactions. We find that spherical vesicles are stable under rather general assumptions on these interactions described within the Flory-Huggins theory. We consider also the deformation of the vesicles in an external magnetic field that has been recently experimentally observed.

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