Figure 3. Result of effect of size of neutral hydrophobic AuNPs on skin bilayer properties.
(a) Projected area on XY plane (b) area compressibility (c) order parameter Sz of CER chain sn1 and sn2 and (d) over all tail order parameter < Sn > in the presence of thiol coated AuNPs of size of 2–5 nm. The chain sn1 and sn2 are and corresponding bead numbers are shown in Fig. 1. For color code refer to web version of the article.
