Advances in the microrheology of complex fluids

TA Waigh - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
New developments in the microrheology of complex fluids are considered. Firstly the
requirements for a simple modern particle tracking microrheology experiment are …

Passive and active microrheology for biomedical systems

Y Mao, P Nielsen, J Ali - Frontiers in bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Microrheology encompasses a range of methods to measure the mechanical properties of
soft materials. By characterizing the motion of embedded microscopic particles …

Size-tunable copper nanocluster aggregates and their application in hydrogen sulfide sensing on paper-based devices

PC Chen, YC Li, JY Ma, JY Huang, CF Chen… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Polystyrene sulfonate (PSS), a strong polyelectrolyte, was used to prepare red
photoluminescent PSS-penicillamine (PA) copper (Cu) nanoclusters (NC) aggregates …

Surfactant controlled growth of niobium oxide nanorods

RF Ali, AH Nazemi, BD Gates - Crystal Growth & Design, 2017 - ACS Publications
This paper describes a solution-phase hydrothermal synthesis of crystalline niobium
pentoxide (Nb2O5) nanorods. The methods reported herein yield uniform Nb2O5 nanorods …

Intracellular viscoelasticity of HeLa cells during cell division studied by video particle-tracking microrheology

YQ Chen, CY Kuo, MT Wei, K Wu… - … of biomedical optics, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Cell division plays an important role in regulating cell proliferation and differentiation. It is
managed by a complex sequence of cytoskeleton alteration that induces dividing cells to …

Two-point active microrheology in a viscous medium exploiting a motional resonance excited in dual-trap optical tweezers

S Paul, R Kumar, A Banerjee - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
Two-point microrheology measurements from widely separated colloidal particles approach
the bulk viscosity of the host medium more reliably than corresponding single-point …

Effects of Ca2+ Ion Condensation on the Molecular Structure of Polystyrene Sulfonate at Air–Water Interfaces

F Schulze-Zachau, S Bachmann, B Braunschweig - Langmuir, 2018 - ACS Publications
The structure of poly (sodium 4-styrenesulfonate)(NaPSS) polyelectrolytes at air–water
interfaces was investigated with tensiometry, ellipsometry, and vibrational sum-frequency …

Hydrogen bond induced solvent ordering in aqueous poly (sodium p-styrenesulfonate)

E Raghuram, R Padmarajan, SK Kalpathy - Polymer, 2022 - Elsevier
Molecular dynamics simulations were used to investigate the structure and dynamics of the
diffuse interphase in aqueous poly (sodium p-styrenesulfonate)(NaPSS). The effect of …

Intracellular nonequilibrium fluctuating stresses indicate how nonlinear cellular mechanical properties adapt to microenvironmental rigidity

MT Wei, SS Jedlicka, HD Ou-Yang - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Living cells are known to be in thermodynamically nonequilibrium, which is largely brought
about by intracellular molecular motors. The motors consume chemical energies to generate …

Synthesis of Length-Controlled Polyvalent Silver Nanowire–DNA Conjugates for Sensitive and Selective Detection of DNA Targets

SH Han, JS Lee - Langmuir, 2012 - ACS Publications
We have developed a facile method to rapidly synthesize the monodisperse silver nanowire–
DNA conjugates with a constant diameter and systematically controllable lengths in the …