Discrete Information and Life - Infobiotics: Information in Biotic Systems - page 13

Fig. 1.3 Stylized images of phospholipid aggregation of bilayer monomers around their
head-head axis
Fig. 1.4 A semi-complete liposome aggregation with a tail-uncovered border
water, while double tails are waterproofed by the double tails around them in the
bilayer aggregation. The two surfaces showing the heads of double monomers pro-
vide one internal and one external spherical surface (sphere is the minimum surface
enclosing a given volume). The second arrangement develops according to a bi-
linear schema. In this case, firstly a linear c atenative arrangement is realized by
sequences of type: (head-tail)+(head-tail)...+(head-tail), then two lines are paired
(at least in regular situations). In this case, pairing can be established only between
two corresponding monomers of the paired lines, by means of a specific molecular
bond between them (having complementary types, see Fig. 1.13). A crucial aspect