Figure 2.

Phase diagram describing the interaction of particles with a spherical vesicle with initially zero tension. The parameters are here defined as follows: R₀ denotes the initial vesicle radius; a corresponds to the particle radius r; ; ζ = g_ad/g_ten. In short, very small particles will not be wrapped at all due to the bending resistance (white). The wrapping of big particles is rather limited by membrane tension (light grey). Only for low vesicle tension and sufficiently big particles full wrapping is possible (dark grey). Reprinted with permission from [21]. Copyright 2002 American Chemical Society.