The Scientific World Journal

Research Article

Determination of the Strength of Adhesion between Lipid Vesicles

Figure 3

Measure 𝑀 = t a n ( 𝜑 a / 2 ) , where 𝜑 a is the adhesion angle, as a function of dimensionless reduced adhesion constant ̃ 𝛾 for the vesicle relative volumes 𝑣 = 0 . 9 –0.95. Curves show the fits of function from (7) where only 𝑘 is a free parameter. The inset shows the fit, where the constraint 𝑀 0 is released, and the data is fitted using the function defined in (7) for the two free parameters: 𝑀 0 and 𝑘 .
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