Biomedical subjects

W T Góźdź

Publications and source records attributed to W T Góźdź.

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PubMed2006

The interface width of separated two-component lipid membranes.

We study two-component vesicles with coherent domains of the components, where the domains are separated by an interface. The components are characterized by different spontaneous curvatures. No line tension term or interactions between components are included in the model. The influence of the interface width and interface location on the bending energy and shape of the vesicles is studied. How the spontaneous curvature of one component influences the concentration profile is examined. The vesicles of oblate and prolate geometries are investigated.

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PubMed2005

Influence of spontaneous curvature and microtubules on the conformations of lipid vesicles.

The conformations of vesicles deformed by microtubules are studied within the framework of the curvature energy. The phenomenon in which the destruction of a microtubule is followed by the formation of peristaltic shapes on a protrusion created by the microtubule is investigated. The influence of the spontaneous curvature on the conformations of vesicles is examined, and the results are compared to existing experiments. The elastic properties of a vesicle deformed by the microtubule are studied.

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PubMed2005

Phase separation of the Widom-Rowlinson mixture in confined geometry.

The behavior of binary Widom-Rowlinson [J. Chem. Phys. 52, 1670 (1970)] mixture in confined geometry is investigated. The influence of confinement on phase separation is examined. Coexistence curves for the mixture in slitlike pores and pores of complex geometry are calculated in Monte Carlo simulations. Finite size scaling analysis is used to determine precisely the location of critical point for the bulk mixture.

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PubMed2004

Spontaneous curvature induced shape transformations of tubular polymersomes.

The behavior of tubular polymersomes is investigated within the framework of the elastic energy model. The transition from a cylindrical tube to a chain of beads connected by small necks is studied in detail. The evolution of a polymersome shape, resulting from a change of the temperature is modeled by the shape transformations caused by a change of the spontaneous curvature. Good agreement between the experiments and the theoretical calculations is found.

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