Bilayer Elasticity at the Nanoscale: The Need for New Terms
Figure 4
Renormalized spontaneous curvature
as a function of the hydrophobic mismatch
. Data from Ref. [16], which presents fits of simulation results for inclusions with three different hydrophobic thicknesses. Line: linear fit, with slope
. Note that our
corresponds to twice that in Table 2 of Ref. [16], as we work with total curvatures instead of average curvatures. The error bars on
are those listed in that table, and
corresponds to
in that table.