A fluid lipid membrane transmits stresses and torques that are fully determined by its
geometry. They can be described by a stress-and torque-tensor, respectively, which yield …

How nanoparticles interact with biomembranes is central for understanding their bioactivity.
Biomembranes wrap around nanoparticles if the adhesive interaction between the …

How nanoparticles interact with biomembranes is central for understanding their bioactivity.
In this Letter, we report novel tubular membrane structures induced by adsorbed spherical …

Clustering of extracellular ligands and proteins on the plasma membrane is required to
perform specific cellular functions, such as signaling and endocytosis. Attractive forces that …

Specialized proteins serve as scaffolds sculpting strongly curved membranes of intracellular
organelles. Effective membrane shaping requires segregation of these proteins into …

Besides direct particle–particle interactions, nanoparticles adsorbed to biomembranes
experience indirect interactions that are mediated by the membrane curvature arising from …

Particles bound to an interface interact because they deform its shape. The stresses that
result are fully encoded in the geometry and described by a divergence-free surface stress …

Conical inclusions in a lipid bilayer generate an overall spontaneous curvature of the
membrane that depends on concentration and geometry of the inclusions. Examples are …

Fluid lipid membranes can mediate forces between particles bound to them: A local
deformation of the surface geometry created by some object spreads to distant regions …

In this paper, we study the equilibrium properties of polymer chains end-tethered to a fluid
membrane. The loss of conformational entropy of the polymer results in an inhomogeneous …