Determination of the Strength of Adhesion between Lipid Vesicles
Figure 2
Phase contrast microscope image of the two adhering giant phospholipid vesicles (with radii of approx. 30 μm). The -axis denotes the symmetry axis and the -axis the contact plane. Points A, B1, and B2 are to be located to measure the adhesion angle between lines and . The adhesion angle can be obtained also from measuring lengths: , where , , and points and are projections of points and to the contact plane.
