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How a table modulates the risk of airborne transmission between facing individuals
Oğuzhan Kaplan, Manouk Abkarian, Simon Mendez
Airborne transmission has been recognized as an important route of transmission for SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. While coughing and sneezing are spe…
Dynamic stiffening of the flagellar hook
Ashley L. Nord, Anais Biquet-Bisquert, Manouk Abkarian +4
Many bacteria are motile by means of one or more rotating rigid helical flagella, making them the only known organism to use rotation as a means of propulsion. The rotation is supp…
Speech can produce jet-like transport relevant to asymptomatic spreading of virus
Manouk Abkarian, Simon Mendez, Nan Xue +2
Many scientific reports document that asymptomatic and presymptomatic individuals contribute to the spread of COVID-19, probably during conversations in social interactions. Drople…
High resolution photonic force microscopy based on sharp nano-fabricated tips
Rudy Desgarceaux, Zhanna Santybayeva, Eliana Battistella +6
Sub-nm resolution images can be achieved by Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) on samples that are deposited on hard substrates. However, it is still extremely challenging to image soft…
Cluster of red blood cells in microcapillary flow: hydrodynamic versus macromolecule induced interaction
Viviana Clavería, Othmane Aouane, Marine Thiébaud +5
We present experiments on RBCs that flow through microcapillaries under physiological conditions. We show that the RBC clusters form as a subtle imbrication between hydrodynamics i…
A new look at blood shear-thinning
Luca Lanotte, Johannes Mauer, Simon Mendez +6
Blood viscosity decreases with shear stress, a property essential for an efficient perfusion of the vascular tree. Shear-thinning is intimately related to the dynamics and mutual i…