@article{10339,
  abstract     = {We study the effects of osmotic shocks on lipid vesicles via coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations by explicitly considering the solute in the system. We find that depending on their nature (hypo- or hypertonic) such shocks can lead to bursting events or engulfing of external material into inner compartments, among other morphology transformations. We characterize the dynamics of these processes and observe a separation of time scales between the osmotic shock absorption and the shape relaxation. Our work consequently provides an insight into the dynamics of compartmentalization in vesicular systems as a result of osmotic shocks, which can be of interest in the context of early proto-cell development and proto-cell compartmentalisation.},
  author       = {Vanhille-Campos, Christian and Šarić, Anđela},
  issn         = {1744-6848},
  journal      = {Soft Matter},
  keywords     = {condensed matter physics, general chemistry},
  number       = {14},
  pages        = {3798--3806},
  publisher    = {Royal Society of Chemistry},
  title        = {{Modelling the dynamics of vesicle reshaping and scission under osmotic shocks}},
  doi          = {10.1039/d0sm02012e},
  volume       = {17},
  year         = {2021},
}