One characteristic feature of soft matter systems is their strong response to external stimuli.
As a consequence they are comparatively easily driven out of their ground state and out of …

A large number of nanoparticles (NPs) have been raised for diverse biomedical applications
and some of them have shown great potential in treatment and imaging of diseases. Design …

Cross-streamline noninertial migration of a vesicle in a bounded Poiseuille flow is
investigated experimentally and numerically. The combined effects of the walls and of the …

The rheology of suspensions of soft particles, such as red blood cells, is a long-standing
problem in science and engineering due to the complex interplay between deformable …

Throughout history, capillary systems have aided the establishment of the fundamental laws
of blood flow and its non-Newtonian properties. The advent of microfluidics technology in the …

The distribution of red blood cells (RBCs) in a confined channel flow is inhomogeneous and
shows a marked depletion near the walls due to a competition between migration away from …

We review the dynamical behavior of giant fluid vesicles in various types of external
hydrodynamic flow. The interplay between stresses arising from membrane elasticity …

Partitioning of red blood cells (RBCs) at the level of bifurcations in the microcirculatory
system affects many physiological functions yet it remains poorly understood. We address …

Targeted delivery of drugs and imaging agents is very promising to develop new strategies
for the treatment of various diseases such as cancer. For an efficient targeted adhesion, the …

The problem of the splitting of a suspension in bifurcating channels divided into two
branches of non-equal flow rates is addressed. As has long been observed, in particular in …