Confinement des membranes lipidiques

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• Morphogenesis of membrane invaginations in spherical confinement
  Osman Kahraman, Norbert Stoop, Martin Michael Müller

  We study the morphology of a fluid membrane in spherical confinement. When the area of the membrane is slightly larger than the area of the outer container, a single axisymmetric invagination is observed. For higher area, self-contact occurs: the invagination breaks symmetry and deforms into an ellipsoid-like shape connected to its outer part via a small slit. For even higher areas, a second invagination forms inside the original invagination. The folding patterns observed could constitute basic building blocks in the morphogenesis of biological tissues and organelles.
  
  Europhys. Lett., 97(6): 68008, 2012. Cf. aussi arXiv:1201.2518.