Figure 5:

Dependence of shell size on the scaffold preferred size R_scaf calculated from the asymptotic analysis, (lines, Eqs. (7) and (11), compared against numerical minimization of Eq. 1 (symbols). Results are shown in (A) and (B) respectively for shell spontaneous curvature radius values that are large or small compared to the shell elastic length scale: (A) R₀ = 300 and (B) and R₀ = 1, with R_E = 30. Other parameter values are $a=2.5r_{\ast }^2$, Δμ = −10k_BT, and ν = 0.