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SUBMITTER: Haghgooie R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3136805 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Haghgooie Ramin R Toner Mehmet M Doyle Patrick S PS
Macromolecular rapid communications 20090918 2
Recent advances in the synthesis of polymeric colloids have opened the doors to new advanced materials. There is strong interest in using these new techniques to produce particles that mimic and/or interact with biological systems. An important characteristic of biological systems that has not yet been exploited in synthetic polymeric colloids is their wide range of deformability. A canonical example of this is the human red blood cell (RBC) which exhibits extreme reversible deformability under ...[more]