ArticleThe European physical journal. E, Soft matter2010
Polymer-decorated tethered membranes under good- and poor-solvent conditions.
Article in The European physical journal. E, Soft matter, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Linking Structure and Topology in Single-Chain Nanoparticles Using Simulations and Scattering Data.ACS polymers Au · 2025Article
- Polymeric and Polymer-Functionalized Drug Delivery Vectors: From Molecular Architecture and Elasticity to Cellular Uptake.Polymers · 2025Review
- Glycocalyx-induced formation of membrane tubes.Biophysical journal · 2025Article
- Biophysical modeling of membrane curvature generation and curvature sensing by the glycocalyx.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Influence of the glycocalyx on the size and mechanical properties of plasma membrane-derived vesicles.Soft matter · 2025Article
- Strength in numbers: effect of protein crowding on the shape of cell membranes.Biochemical Society transactions · 2022Review
- Crowding-induced membrane remodeling: Interplay of membrane tension, polymer density, architecture.Biophysical journal · 2022Article
- Theoretical Analysis for Bending of Single-Stranded DNA Adsorption on Microcantilever Sensors.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
We study tethered membranes grafted by polymer chains on one side. Mean-field and scaling arguments predicting a spontaneous curvature are compared to the results of lattice-based Monte Carlo simulations using the Bond Fluctuation Model, which are carried out for various grafting densities and chain lengths. We show that already slightly overlapping chains bend the membrane significantly. This proves the entropic origin for the bending stiffness, which is of order kT. To understand the membrane curvature under conditions of very small bending stiffness we apply a geometrical model which takes into account the state of chains at the overlap threshold. Applying a thermal solvent model for the grafted chains, we demonstrate that the bending direction of the membrane can be triggered by variation of the solvent quality. This indicates that polymer-decorated membranes may serve as switchable nanoscale devices.
Indexed as
Identifiers
20480962What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.