Fig 5. Calculated time evolution of pore density at the point of pole and at the contact area between two equally oblate shape vesicles (a to d) and prolate shape vesicles (e to g) in a pulsed electric field with 1.5 kV/cm.
The pulse duration time limits to 1 μs, 2 μs, 10 μs, and 100 μs with corresponding external medium conductivity 1 S/m (a, e), 0.1 S/m (b, f), 0.01 S/m (c, g), and 10−3 S/m (d, h), respectively. Note that the time is presented on a logarithmic scale as this allows one to study the pore generation in the nanosecond and microsecond range simultaneously. The thin horizontal lines indicate a pore density of 1013 m−2.