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cord-030961-5gzc7193	Wang, Jiajun	Adhesive contact between cylindrical (Ebola) and spherical (SARS-CoV-2) viral particles and a cell membrane	2020-08-28		.txt	text/plain	4335	260	55	In the limit where bending dominates, for sufficiently large values of normalized bending stiffness, there is no adhesion between viral particles and the cell membrane without applied force. In this work, we create a continuum model for the small-deflection adhesive contact mechanics of virus particle attachment onto the host cell membrane in terms of the principal biophysical properties of the virus, membrane, and their interaction. These results also help to retrieve conditions for lack of adhesion, pull-off force, and contact area between the virus particle and cell membrane. We now describe in outline the continuum models for adhesive contact between the virus and cell membrane, driven by adhesion and external displacement or force, and resisted by tension and elastic bending. In our models, the parameters that govern the adhesive contact mechanics are (more in Table 1 ) bending rigid κ, tension σ, adhesion free energy per receptor β, binding receptor density ρ, and the radius of the virus, R.	./cache/cord-030961-5gzc7193.txt	./txt/cord-030961-5gzc7193.txt