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. 2001 Jan 30;98(4):1353–1357. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041420998

Figure 1.

Figure 1

(A) Cryo-TEM image of CTAB/SOS/water (2 wt % total surfactant, CTAB/SOS ratio of 3:7 by weight) system showing unilamellar vesicles with a broad size distribution. The vesicles are polydisperse, with the average radius of 37 nm and a standard deviation of 10 nm. (B) Vesicle size distribution histogram determined from measurements of about 3,000 vesicles from many different samples and cryo-TEM images. There are a few much larger vesicles (100–500 nm) in this mixture, but the fraction is so small that they were not plotted in the histogram. The solid line is a fit to Eq. 6 with Ro = 37 nm and K = 0.7 ± 0.2 kBT.