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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 103, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.248103
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The competition between adhesion and external flow to unbind settled vesicles from substrates is investigated. An experimental setup is developed to apply a hydrodynamic pulling force in the range of a few piconewtons to a vesicle with retained axisymmetry. In the limit of a small excess of membrane area, vesicles are found to transit during unbinding from a process of fluid film thickening at constant contact area to a finite-time process of contact radius drop to zero with an exponent 1/2. Both characteristic times vary linearly with the inverse flow rate. On the contrary, deflated vesicles under a moderate pulling force exhibit a decrease of contact area at a constant film thickness before a film thickening.
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