We review the dynamical behavior of giant fluid vesicles in various types of external
hydrodynamic flow. The interplay between stresses arising from membrane elasticity …

Characterization of the extensional rheometry of fluids with complex microstructures is of
great relevance to the optimization of a wide range of industrial applications and for …

Bacterial nanowires have garnered recent interest as a proposed extracellular electron
transfer (EET) pathway that links the bacterial electron transport chain to solid-phase …

A precision-machined cross-slot flow geometry with a shape that has been optimized by
numerical simulation of the fluid kinematics is fabricated and used to measure the …

We present an efficient method for measuring cell stretching based on three-dimensional
viscoelastic particle focusing. We suspended cells in a biocompatible viscoelastic medium …

The quantification of cellular mechanical properties is of tremendous interest in biology and
medicine. Recent microfluidic technologies that infer cellular mechanical properties based …

Semiflexible polymers subject to hydrodynamic forcing play an important role in cytoskeletal
motions in the cell, particularly when filaments guide molecular motors whose motions …

In this paper, we study the hydrodynamics of a vesicle doublet suspended in an external
viscous fluid flow. Vesicles in this study are modeled using the phase-field model. The …

One of the goals of synthetic biology is the bottom‐up construction of an artificial cell, the
successful realization of which could shed light on how cellular life emerged and could also …

Vesicles are locally-inextensible fluid membranes, capsules are endowed with in-plane
shear elasticity mimicking the cytoskeleton of red blood cells (RBCs), but are extensible …