Session A8 - Focus Session: Neutron Scattering and Other Studies of Phospholipids.
FOCUS session, Monday morning, March 22
510A, Palais des Congres
We use a novel mesoscale Monte Carlo method to simulate a simple model of self-assembled mixed-lipid disks or "bicelles." We will discuss results from these simulations, including volume fractions, order parameters, and disk size distributions of coexisting isotropic and nematic phases. We will also discuss simulations in which the disks are allowed to include pores, and the insights these results offer into the morphological transition from disks to perforated sheets or other extended structures that have been proposed to explain experimental results in nematic bicelle phases.