Dynamics of red blood cells and vesicles in microchannels of oscillating width
Dynamics of red blood cells and vesicles in microchannels of oscillating width
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DOI:
10.1088/0953-8984/23/18/184116
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发表时间:
2011-05-11
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
Franke, T.
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作者:
Braunmueller, S.;Schmid, L.;Franke, T.
We have studied the dynamics of red blood cells and fluid lipid vesicles in hydrodynamic flow fields created by microchannels with periodically varying channel width. For red blood cells we find a transition from a regime with oscillating tilt angle and fixed shape to a regime with oscillating shape with increasing flow velocity. We have determined the crossover to occur at a critical ratio L-y/v(m) approximate to 2.2 x 10 (3) s with channel width L-y and red blood cell velocity v(m). These oscillations are superposed by shape transitions from a discocyte to a slipper shape at low velocities and a slipper to parachute transition at high flow velocities.