... bilayer biomembrane. One is a two-dimensional fluid membrane, which reflects the fluidity of the lipid molecules. The other is a hyperelastic membrane, which reflects the stiffness of cytoskeleton structure. Liposome is usually modeled as a fluid membrane and red blood cell (RBC) is modeled...

...M. Arslan; M. C. Boyce; H. J. Qi; C. Ortiz The mechanical behavior of the red blood cell membrane is governed by the lipid bilayer which resists changes in surface area and the underlying spectrin network which resists changes in shape. The constituent spectrin chains of the network consist...

...M. Arslan; M. C. Boyce The mechanical behavior of the membrane of the red blood cell is governed by two primary microstructural features: the lipid bilayer and the underlying spectrin network. The lipid bilayer is analogous to a two-dimensional fluid in that it resists changes to its surface area...