Over the past decades, increasing evidence has indicated that mechanical loads can
regulate the morphogenesis, proliferation, migration, and apoptosis of living cells …

It has been argued that linear microrheology with optical tweezers (MOT) of living systems
“is not an option” because of the wide gap between the observation time required to collect …

Semiflexible fiber gels such as collagen and fibrin have unique nonlinear mechanical
properties that play an important role in tissue morphogenesis, wound healing, and cancer …

Microrheology, the study of material flow at micron scales, has advanced significantly since
Robert Brown's discovery of Brownian motion in 1827. Mason and Weitz's seminal work in …

Biomechanical cues from the extracellular matrix (ECM) are essential for directing many
cellular processes, from normal development and repair, to disease progression. To better …

We simulate the transport of colloidal particles driven by a static and homogeneous drift
force, and subject to the optical potential created by two lattices of optical tweezers. The …

We theoretically investigate the properties of two interacting ultracold highly magnetic atoms
trapped in a one-dimensional harmonic potential. The atoms interact via an anisotropic long …

Microrheology with optical tweezers (MOT) is an all-optical technique that allows the user to
investigate a materials' viscoelastic properties at microscopic scales, and is particularly …

Microrheology with optical tweezers (MOT) is an all-optical technique that allows for
viscoelastic properties to be probed at microscopic scales, and is particularly useful for …

Rheology is a wide-reaching field whose applications are underpinned by a prior
knowledge of the 'viscoelastic'properties of (complex) materials generally employed across …