Advances in light transverse momenta and optical lateral forces

Y Shi, X Xu, M Nieto-Vesperinas, Q Song… - Advances in Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
<? pag\vskip-16pt?> Harnessing linear and angular momenta of light is one of the
cornerstones in modern optics and has found tremendous applications in optical circuits …

Diffraction phase microscopy: principles and applications in materials and life sciences

B Bhaduri, C Edwards, H Pham, R Zhou… - Advances in Optics …, 2014 - opg.optica.org
The main obstacle in retrieving quantitative phase with high sensitivity is posed by the phase
noise due to mechanical vibrations and air fluctuations that typically affect any …

Conformability of flexible sheets on spherical surfaces

S Liu, J He, Y Rao, Z Dai, H Ye, JC Tanir, Y Li… - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Three-dimensional surface-conformable electronics is a burgeoning technology with
potential applications in curved displays, bioelectronics, and biomimetics. Flexible …

Influence of particle size and shape on their margination and wall-adhesion: implications in drug delivery vehicle design across nano-to-micro scale

M Cooley, A Sarode, M Hoore, DA Fedosov… - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Intravascular drug delivery technologies majorly utilize spherical nanoparticles as carrier
vehicles. Their targets are often at the blood vessel wall or in the tissue beyond the wall …

If cell mechanics can be described by elastic modulus: study of different models and probes used in indentation experiments

N Guz, M Dokukin, V Kalaparthi, I Sokolov - Biophysical journal, 2014 - cell.com
Here we investigated the question whether cells, being highly heterogeneous objects, could
be described with the elastic modulus (effective Young's modulus) in a self-consistent way …

Simulating tissue mechanics with agent-based models: concepts, perspectives and some novel results

P Van Liedekerke, MM Palm, N Jagiella… - Computational particle …, 2015 - Springer
In this paper we present an overview of agent-based models that are used to simulate
mechanical and physiological phenomena in cells and tissues, and we discuss underlying …

Shape and biomechanical characteristics of human red blood cells in health and disease

M Diez-Silva, M Dao, J Han, CT Lim, S Suresh - MRS bulletin, 2010 - cambridge.org
The biconcave shape and corresponding deformability of the human red blood cell (RBC) is
an essential feature of its biological function. This feature of RBCs can be critically affected …

Biomechanics and biophysics of cancer cells

S Suresh - Acta biomaterialia, 2007 - Elsevier
The past decade has seen substantial growth in research into how changes in the
biomechanical and biophysical properties of cells and subcellular structures influence, and …

Equilibrium physics breakdown reveals the active nature of red blood cell flickering

H Turlier, DA Fedosov, B Audoly, T Auth, NS Gov… - Nature physics, 2016 - nature.com
Red blood cells, or erythrocytes, are seen to flicker under optical microscopy, a
phenomenon initially described as thermal fluctuations of the cell membrane. But recent …

A multiscale red blood cell model with accurate mechanics, rheology, and dynamics

DA Fedosov, B Caswell, GE Karniadakis - Biophysical journal, 2010 - cell.com
Red blood cells (RBCs) have highly deformable viscoelastic membranes exhibiting complex
rheological response and rich hydrodynamic behavior governed by special elastic and …