Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2023 APS March Meeting
Volume 68, Number 3
Las Vegas, Nevada (March 5-10)
Virtual (March 20-22); Time Zone: Pacific Time
Session RR06: V: Materials Chemical Physics
11:30 AM–1:18 PM,
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Room: Virtual Room 6
Sponsoring
Unit:
DCP
Chair: Saravana Prakash Thirumuruganandham, Centro de Investigación de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educació
Abstract: RR06.00001 : Particles at Membranes – Shape, Deformability, and Activity
11:30 AM–12:06 PM
Presenter:
Gerhard Gompper
(Institute of Biological Information Processing and Institute for Advanced Simulations)
Authors:
Gerhard Gompper
(Institute of Biological Information Processing and Institute for Advanced Simulations)
Thorsten Auth
(Institute of Biological Information Processing and Institute for Advanced Simulations)
Jiarul Midya
(Institute of Biological Information Processing and Institute for Advanced Simulations)
Dmitry Fedosov
(Institute of Biological Information Processing and Institute for Advanced Simulations)
(i) The wrapping of (non-spherical) soft particles by membranes [2], and
(ii) The effect of active filaments and particles in vesicles and cells on their shapes, fluc- tuations, motility, and self-steering (in response to environmental cues) [3,4].
A combination of particle-based and continuum models is used in mesoscale simulations to address the behavior of these systems [5]. Many particles in vivo and in vitro are de- formable, e.g., vesicles, filamentous viruses, macromolecular condensates, polymer-grafted nanoparticles, and microgels. We study non-spherical vesicles with various sizes, shapes, and elastic properties at initially planar lipid-bilayer membranes to predict the interplay of vesicle shapes and wrapping states [2]. Increasing particle softness enhances the stability of shallow-wrapped and deep-wrapped states over non-wrapped and complete-wrapped states. For partial-wrapped vesicles, the free membrane also mediates an interaction be- tween these soft particles.
Vesicles with internal active components are highly simplified models of cells [3,4]. Here, the active components lead to enhanced fluctuations [4] and an intimate coupling of propulsion forces, membrane deformability, cell shape, and cell sensing and reactivity [3,4]. In these systems, computational models of active matter play an essential role to elucidate their non-equilibrium behavior [5,6,7].
Our predictions help to understand the mechanisms behind the reaction of cell to passive and active stimuly, and may guide the design and fabrication of active and deformable particles for efficient use in medical applications, such as targeted drug delivery.
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