2 papers
physics.bio-ph2011
Stimulation of human red blood cells leads to Ca2+-mediated intercellular adhesion
Patrick Steffen, Achim Jung, Duc Bach Nguyen +4
Red blood cells (RBCs) are a major component of blood clots, which form physiologically as a response to injury or pathologically in thrombosis. The active participation of RBCs in…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2002
Ferrofluids as thermal ratchets
Andreas Engel, Hanns Walter Mueller, Peter Reimann +1
Colloidal suspensions of ferromagnetic nano-particles, so-called ferrofluids, are shown to be suitable systems to demonstrate and investigate thermal ratchet behavior: By rectifyin…