1. Microrheology with optical tweezers: data analysis
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Manlio Tassieri, R M L Evans, Rebecca L Warren, Nicholas J Bailey, and Jonathan M Cooper
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Science ,Physics ,QC1-999 - Abstract
We present a data analysis procedure that provides the solution to a long-standing issue in microrheology studies, i.e. the evaluation of the fluids' linear viscoelastic properties from the analysis of a finite set of experimental data, describing (for instance) the time-dependent mean-square displacement of suspended probe particles experiencing Brownian fluctuations. We report, for the first time in the literature, the linear viscoelastic response of an optically trapped bead suspended in a Newtonian fluid, over the entire range of experimentally accessible frequencies. The general validity of the proposed method makes it transferable to the majority of microrheology and rheology techniques.
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- 2012
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