Controlling the shape and topology of two-component colloidal membranes

@article{Khanra2022ControllingTS,
  title={Controlling the shape and topology of two-component colloidal membranes},
  author={Ayantika Khanra and Leroy L. Jia and Noah P. Mitchell and Andrew J. Balchunas and Robert A Pelcovits and Thomas R. Powers and Zvonimir Dogic and Prerna Sharma},
  journal={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
  year={2022},
  volume={119}
}
Significance Three-dimensional shaping of thin sheets and membranes is a ubiquitous feature of materials science and underlies diverse biological processes, ranging from large-scale morphogenesis to molecular drug delivery. It is also a familiar everyday phenomenon, as illustrated by the formation of soap bubbles. We demonstrate how flat disk–shaped colloidal membranes transform into saddle-like surfaces. As membranes coalesce, the saddle-shaped surfaces form catenoid-like structures and other… 
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