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Zhang, XJ; Ou-Yang, ZC ; Zhang, XJ (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, CAS Key Lab Theoret Phys, Inst Theoret Phys, POB 2735, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China.
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| Mechanism behind the Beauty: The Golden Ratio Appeared in the Shape Red Blood Cells | |
| Source Publication | COMMUNICATIONS IN COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS
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| Language | 英语 |
| Keyword | Red Blood Cell Golden Ratio |
| Abstract | In the past two decades, a rigorous solution for the shape of human red blood cell (RBC) with a negative spontaneous curvature c(0) has been derived with the Helfrich model under the condition that both the osmotic pressure Delta p and tensile stress lambda are equal to zero. By fitting the experimentally observed shape of RBC, c(0)R(0) has been predicted to be -1.62, the minus golden ratio, where R-0 is the radius of a sphere which has the same surface area as RBC. In this paper, we verify this prediction by comparing experimental data with an analytical equation describing the relation between volume and surface area. Furthermore, it is also found rho max / rho B approximate to 1.6 with rho max the maximal radius and rho B the characteristic radius of RBC, showing an approximate beautiful golden cross section of RBC. On the basis of a complete numerical calculation, we propose a mechanism behind the beauty of the minus golden ratio that c(0)R(0) results from the balance between the minimization of the surface area and the requirement of adequate deformability of RBC to allow it passing through the spleen, the so called "physical fitness test". |
| 2017 | |
| Volume | 21Issue:2Pages:559-569 |
| Subject Area | Physics |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2016-0205 |
| Funding Organization | National Basic Research Program of China (973 program) [2013CB932803] ; National Basic Research Program of China (973 program) [2013CB932803] ; National Basic Research Program of China (973 program) [2013CB932803] ; National Basic Research Program of China (973 program) [2013CB932803] ; Joint NSFC-ISF Research Program ; Joint NSFC-ISF Research Program ; Joint NSFC-ISF Research Program ; Joint NSFC-ISF Research Program ; Israel Science Foundation [51561145002] ; Israel Science Foundation [51561145002] ; Israel Science Foundation [51561145002] ; Israel Science Foundation [51561145002] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China [51561145002] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China [51561145002] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China [51561145002] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China [51561145002] |
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| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | http://ir.itp.ac.cn/handle/311006/22137 |
| Collection | SCI期刊论文 |
| Corresponding Author | Zhang, XJ (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, CAS Key Lab Theoret Phys, Inst Theoret Phys, POB 2735, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China. |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Zhang, XJ,Ou-Yang, ZC,Zhang, XJ . Mechanism behind the Beauty: The Golden Ratio Appeared in the Shape Red Blood Cells[J]. COMMUNICATIONS IN COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS,2017,21(2):559-569. |
| APA | Zhang, XJ,Ou-Yang, ZC,&Zhang, XJ .(2017).Mechanism behind the Beauty: The Golden Ratio Appeared in the Shape Red Blood Cells.COMMUNICATIONS IN COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS,21(2),559-569. |
| MLA | Zhang, XJ,et al."Mechanism behind the Beauty: The Golden Ratio Appeared in the Shape Red Blood Cells".COMMUNICATIONS IN COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS 21.2(2017):559-569. |
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