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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…
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…
Swinging of red blood cells under shear flow
Manouk Abkarian, Magalie Faivre, Annie Viallat
We reveal that under moderate shear stress (of the order of 0.1 Pa) red blood cells present an oscillation of their inclination (swinging) superimposed to the long-observed steady…