Membrane Elasticity and Curvature

TABLE 3.1 Packing Parameters and Molecular Shapes for Different Surfactant Phases 

Cone Cone Cylinder Inverted cone Inverted cone 

FIGURE 3.8 The overall shape of surfactant molecules plays an important role in molecular packing and self-assembly. If molecules are on average cone-like or cylindrical, they will pack together to produce either flat or 

Surfactant membranes are thin sheets of molecules held together by intermolecular forces and in many cases behave like a two-dimensional (2D) fluid. The geometry of the individual molecules making up the 

FIGURE 3.9 Diagrams demonstrating three basic multilamellar phase geometries flat, cylindrical, and spherical. In these images, the sheets indicate the arrangement of the surfactant bilayers in a solvent medium. (Images 

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