Curvature-Induced Spatial Ordering of Composition in Lipid Membranes

Figure 1

Composition field, , is calculated in a rectangular section of dimension , typically discretized into points, and subjected to periodic boundary conditions. Here, is the 1D period of the surface curvature in the experiment. The value of at each point is shown by different colors (see color bar). The image on the right shows a schematic illustration of the topographically patterned quartz substrate (gray), supported membrane (green), and upper (red) membrane in the experiment of Parthasarathy et al. [54] (reproduced with permission from [54]).

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