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Fluid-membrane tethers: Minimal surfaces and elastic boundary layers
2002
Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics
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Thin cylindrical tethers are common lipid bilayer membrane structures, arising in situations ranging from micromanipulation experiments on artificial vesicles to the dynamic structure of the Golgi apparatus. We study the shape and formation of a tether in terms of the classical soap-film problem, which is applied to the case of a membrane disk under tension subject to a point force. A tether forms from the elastic boundary layer near the point of application of the force, for sufficiently large
doi:10.1103/physreve.65.041901
pmid:12005867
fatcat:cw6kqihydjgmbd4eddlgae33xu