Abstract

Soft entities can be deformed by Poiseuille flows in thin microfluidic channels. Exploiting this phenomenon, we show that red blood cells exhibit a deformation-induced actuation when being subjected to asymmetric periodic flow fields, whereas rigid beads show a vanishing net drift.

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