Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2011-09-08
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
4 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
We report the experimental studies on interaction of two vesicles trapped in a microfluidic analog of four-roll mill, where a plane linear flow is realized. We found that the dynamics of a single vesicle is significantly altered by the presence of another vesicle at separation distances up to about $3.2\div 3.7$ times of effective radius of the vesicles. This is supported by direct measurements of a single vesicle back-reaction on the velocity field. Thus, the experiment provides the lower bound for the interaction scale of vesicles and so the corresponding upper bound for the volume fraction $\phi=0.08\div 0.13$ of non-interacting vesicle suspensions.
Afik Eldad
Deschamps Julien
Levant Michael
Steinberg Victor
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