Cavitation with bubble–bubble interaction is a fundamental feature in therapeutic
ultrasound. However, the causal relationships between bubble dynamics, associated flow …

Diffuse axonal injury (DAI) occurs as a result of the transmission of rapid dynamic loads from
the head to the brain and specifically to its neurons. Despite being one of the most common …

Rupture of biological cell membrane under mechanical stresses is critical for cell viability. It
is triggered by local rearrangements of membrane molecules. We investigated the effects of …

Therapeutic ultrasound or shockwave has shown its great potential to stimulate neural and
muscle tissue, where cavitation microbubble induced Ca 2+ signaling is believed to play an …

Deformability is shown to correlate with the invasiveness and metastasis of cancer cells.
Recent studies suggest epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) might enable cancer …

The interdigitated gel (LβI) phase is one of the membrane phases of phospholipid molecules
in which the hydrophobic tails of the phospholipid molecules penetrate the opposite leaflet …

An antimicrobial peptide (AMP), PGLa, has bactericidal activity. A recent study using single-
cell analysis demonstrates that a short time interaction of PGLa with single Escherichia coli …

Cavitation with bubble–bubble interaction is a fundamental feature in therapeutic
ultrasound. However, the causal relationships between bubble dynamics, associated flow …

Cholesterol is one of the most essential molecule in phospholipid bilayers of animal cell
membranes and is known to help to maintain the bilayer integrity under mechanical stresses …

This thesis deals with the interaction of biological cells with transient fast flows mainly from
bubbles in microfluidic confinement. These interactions can be utilized to stretch and porate …