... 02 2008 07 07 2008 15 01 2009 biomechanics biomembranes blood cellular biophysics elastic deformation lipid bilayers molecular biophysics shear flow swelling viscosity immersed boundary method liposome red blood cell tank-treading tumbling membrane...

...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...