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Pearling of lipid vesicles induced by nanoparticles
1Department of Material Science and Enginering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|September 25, 2009
Abstract:
We show that cationic nanoparticles encapsulated within vesicles of phosphocholine lipid can induce pearling. The dynamic process occurs as two stages: formation of tubular protrusions followed by pearling instability. The breakup into individual vesicles can be controlled by nanoparticle concentration.
