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. 2017 Sep 22;7:12152. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-12127-7

Table 2.

Contributions of different deformational modes to the total energy of the pore edge in the membrane made of the reference model lipid.

Pore radius, r, nm 0.2 0.4 0.6 1 2 5 10 15 200
Splay energy, k B T /% 0.03 0.68% 0.46 2.74% 2.45 7.18% 32.4 90.4% 26.5 86.3% 45.5 80.0% 103 80.9% 166 81.6% 2622 83.4%
Tilt energy, k B T /% 0.06 1.27% 0.57 3.45% 2.54 7.43% 1.70 4.8% 2.70 8.8% 7.90 14.0% 16.9 13.3% 25.8 12.7% 356 11.3%
Stretching energy, k B T /% 0.01 0.25% 0.18 1.07% 1.11 3.25% 1.70 4.8% 1.50 4.9% 3.50 6.0% 7.40 5.8% 11.6 5.7% 168 5.3%
Hydrophobic energy, k B T /% 4.33 97.8% 15.5 92.7% 28.1 82.2% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
Total energy, k B T 4.41 16.6 34.1 35.8 30.7 56.9 127 204 3145
Line tension, pN 14.0 26.4 36.2 22.8 9.77 7.24 8.09 8.66 10.0