Physical principles of nanoparticle cellular endocytosis

S Zhang, H Gao, G Bao - ACS nano, 2015 - ACS Publications
This review article focuses on the physiochemical mechanisms underlying nanoparticle
uptake into cells. When nanoparticles are in close vicinity to a cell, the interactions between …

A state-of-the-art review of experimental and computational studies of granular materials: properties, advances, challenges, and future directions

P Tahmasebi - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Modeling of heterogeneous materials and media is a problem of fundamental importance to
a wide class of phenomena and systems, ranging from condensed matter physics, soft …

Regional blood flow in the normal and ischemic brain is controlled by arteriolar smooth muscle cell contractility and not by capillary pericytes

RA Hill, L Tong, P Yuan, S Murikinati, S Gupta… - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
The precise regulation of cerebral blood flow is critical for normal brain function, and its
disruption underlies many neuropathologies. The extent to which smooth muscle-covered …

Real-time deformability cytometry: on-the-fly cell mechanical phenoty**

O Otto, P Rosendahl, A Mietke, S Golfier, C Herold… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
We introduce real-time deformability cytometry (RT-DC) for continuous cell mechanical
characterization of large populations (> 100,000 cells) with analysis rates greater than 100 …

Adaptive locomotion of artificial microswimmers

HW Huang, FE Uslu, P Katsamba, E Lauga… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Bacteria can exploit mechanics to display remarkable plasticity in response to locally
changing physical and chemical conditions. Compliant structures play a notable role in their …

A multiscale red blood cell model with accurate mechanics, rheology, and dynamics

DA Fedosov, B Caswell, GE Karniadakis - Biophysical journal, 2010 - cell.com
Red blood cells (RBCs) have highly deformable viscoelastic membranes exhibiting complex
rheological response and rich hydrodynamic behavior governed by special elastic and …

Multi-particle collision dynamics: A particle-based mesoscale simulation approach to the hydrodynamics of complex fluids

G Gompper, T Ihle, DM Kroll, RG Winkler - Advanced computer simulation …, 2009 - Springer
In this review, we describe and analyze a mesoscale simulation method for fluid flow, which
was introduced by Malevanets and Kapral in 1999, and is now called multi-particle collision …

Clogging of microfluidic systems

E Dressaire, A Sauret - Soft matter, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The transport of suspensions of microparticles in confined environments is associated with
complex phenomena at the interface of fluid mechanics and soft matter. Indeed, the …

Blood flow in the microcirculation

TW Secomb - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The microcirculation is an extensive network of microvessels that distributes blood flow
throughout living tissues. Reynolds numbers are much less than 1, and the equations of …

Physics of adherent cells

US Schwarz, SA Safran - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2013 - APS
One of the most unique physical features of cell adhesion to external surfaces is the active
generation of mechanical force at the cell-material interface. This includes pulling forces …