Table 1. A summary of values reported for the bending rigidity, κ, of discocytic red blood cells from the literature and our RBC_cm membranes.

(Errors are expressed as standard deviations).

Technique	κ (kBT)	Lengthscale (μm)	Reference
Chronological Literature	RBC
Flickering Analysis	3–9	>0.6	[6]
Micropipette Aspiration Buckling	43	>7	[4]
Reflection Interference Microscopy	5±1.5	>0.25	[7]
Reflection Interference Microscopy	97±37	>2	[8]
Diffraction Phase Microscopy	16±0.3	>0.1	[10]
Reanalysis of [10]	14,25	>0.1	[13]
Flickering Analysis	210	>0.7	[11]
Optical Tweezer	68±0.68	>7	[12]
Flickering Analysis	67±13	>1.5	[30]
Diffraction Phase Microscopy	7±3	>0.1	[9]
Diffraction Phase Microscopy	5±2	>0.1	[31]
This paper	RBCcm
Diffuse X-ray Scattering	2–6	$\begin{array}{c}\hfill \\ \hfill \\ \hfill \end{array}\}<0.08$
Neutron Spin Echo	4–7
Molecular Dynamics	4