Membrane flow patterns in multicomponent giant vesicles induced by alternating electric fields†Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Vesicle preparation procedure, numerical calculations and confocal microscopy movies of domain motion. See DOI: 10.1039/b811876kClick here for additional data file.Click here for additional data file.Click here for additional data file.Click here for additional data file.Click here for additional data file.

Staykova, Margarita; Lipowsky, Reinhard; Dimova, Rumiana · Soft Matter · 2008

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Alternating electric (AC) fields induce circular patterns of lipid transport in membranes of giant vesicles. The flow is visualized by fluorescently labelled lipid domains.