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The University of Osaka

Fig. 1

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Two oppositely charged block copolymers (left) spontaneously assemble in water into hollow spheres called vesicles (center). The magnified view (right) shows the vesicle membrane, in which a liquid coacervate layer is sandwiched between layers of neutral polymer chains.

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Adapted from R. Takahashi et al., When Liquids Form Membranes: Entropy-Dominated Bending Dynamics in Coacervate Vesicles, Physical Review Letters (2026)

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