Wrapping of ellipsoidal nano-particles by fluid membranes

Sabyasachi Dasgupta, Thorsten Autha, Gerhard Gompper
Soft Matter, 9, 5473-5482 (2013)
Membrane budding and wrapping of particles, such as viruses and nano-particles, play a key role in intracellular transport and have been studied for a variety of biological and soft matter systems. We study nano-particle wrapping by numerical minimization of bending, surface tension, and adhesion energies. We […]