Issue 2, 2015

Quasi-unidirectional shrinkage of gels with well-oriented lipid bilayers upon uniaxial stretching

Abstract

PDGI–PAAm gels with well oriented lipid bilayers show a quasi-unidirectional shrinkage upon uniaxial stretching along the bilayers. They shrink largely parallel to the bilayer but slightly perpendicular to it in order not to increase the bilayer area and its interfacial energy. Such an anisotropic deformation can be well-modelled based on classical theories for gel networks and lipid layers.

Graphical abstract: Quasi-unidirectional shrinkage of gels with well-oriented lipid bilayers upon uniaxial stretching

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
22 Sep 2014
Accepted
12 Nov 2014
First published
02 Dec 2014
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Soft Matter, 2015,11, 237-240

Author version available

Quasi-unidirectional shrinkage of gels with well-oriented lipid bilayers upon uniaxial stretching

T. Nakajima, C. Durand, X. F. Li, Md. A. Haque, T. Kurokawa and J. P. Gong, Soft Matter, 2015, 11, 237 DOI: 10.1039/C4SM02113D

This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. You can use material from this article in other publications without requesting further permissions from the RSC, provided that the correct acknowledgement is given.

Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.

Social activity

Spotlight

Advertisements