Competition between deformation and free volume quantified by 3D image analysis of red blood cell

Anisotropic short-range attractions precisely model branched erythrocyte aggregates

“…6(d)]. However if make the pairwise depletion forces asymmetric as described above in eqn (27), we do not observe sharply branched aggregates. The transition to the branched phase with sharp nodes is easily simulated under symmetric depletion forces eqn (3) which also ensures that Newton's third law is obeyed.…”

“…The transition to the branched phase with sharp nodes is easily simulated under symmetric depletion forces eqn (3) which also ensures that Newton's third law is obeyed. If we change the total number of particles present in the system, under both models of the alignment factor eqn (3) and eqn (27), we see that the growth calculations are negligibly affected as long as n remains the same [Fig. 6(h)].…”

“…the range of attraction. 27 Physically, in the recent, it has come to the knowledge that purely hydrodynamically interacting particles in pressure-driven flow exhibit universal scaling of the cluster size distribution independent of the concentration and particle shape. 28 Also, RBCs under gravity sediment and may collapse to form a soft particle gel at high volume concentrations.…”