Determination of the Strength of Adhesion between Lipid Vesicles

Figure 4

A histogram of the differences between the measured angles, 𝑥_𝑖𝑗, measured on the sample of 𝑗_max=200 intervesicle contacts by 𝑖_max=5 raters and the average value of all raters for the given angle, 𝑥_𝑗. Empty (white) bars represent measurements of the effective contact angle, the conventional measure of adhesion, and solid (gray) bars represent the measures of the adhesion angle, the new measure of adhesion proposed in this work. Solid lines represent best fit of the normal distribution.