3 papers
physics.bio-ph2023
Optical control of spatially localized red blood cell activity by holographic tweezing
Niccolò Caselli, Mario García-Verdugo, Macarena Calero +4
Red blood cells possess unique biomechanical ability to squeeze through capillaries smaller than their size to enable gas and ion exchange. A key signature of their active biomecha…
cond-mat.soft2022
Rheology of Pseudomonas fluorescens biofilms: from experiments to DPD mesoscopic modelling
Jose Martin Roca, Valentino Bianco, Francisco Alarcon +6
The presence of bacterial biofilms in clinical and industrial settings is a major issue worldwide. A biofilm is a viscoelastic matrix, composed of bacteria producing a network of E…
cond-mat.soft2019
Mechanics of nematic membranes: Euler-Lagrange equations, Noether charges, stress, torque and boundary conditions of the surface Frank nematic field
J. A. Santiago, F. Monroy
The mechanics of a flexible membrane decorated with a nematic liquid-crystal texture is considered in a variational framework. The variations on the splay, twist and the bend energ…