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Tasuku Nakajima,1 Corentin Durand,2,3 Xu Feng Li,3 Md. Anamul Haque,1,4 Takayuki Kurokawa1, Jian Ping Gong1 .Soft Matter, 2015,11, 237-240.
[expand title=”Show Affiliations”]- Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-10-Nishi-8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan
- Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles, 10 Rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France
- Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-10-Nishi-8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan
- Department of Chemistry, University of Dhaka, Nilkhet Rd, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh. [/expand]
Abstract
PDGI–PAAm gels with well oriented lipid bilayers show a quasi-unidirectional shrinkage upon uniaxial stretching along the bilayers. They shrink largely parallel to the bilayer but slightly perpendicular to it in order not to increase the bilayer area and its interfacial energy. Such an anisotropic deformation can be well-modelled based on classical theories for gel networks and lipid layers.
