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Observation of the Brownian motion of a small probe interacting with its environment provides one of the main strategies for characterizing soft matter. Essentially, two counteracting forces govern the motion of the Brownian particle. First, the particle i ...

Huntington's disease (HD), caused by a mutation of the corresponding gene encoding the protein huntingtin (htt), is characterized by progressive deterioration of cognitive and motor functions, paralleled by extensive loss of striatal neurons. At the cellul ...

Optical tweezers are commonly used and powerful tools to perform force measurements on the piconewton scale and to detect nanometer-scaled displacements. However, the precision of these instruments relies to a great extent on the accuracy of the calibratio ...

We present the microrheological study of the two close human epithelial cell lines: non-cancerous HCV29 and cancerous T24. The optical tweezers tracking was applied to extract the several seconds long trajectories of endogenous lipid granules at time step ...

At timescales once deemed immeasurably small by Einstein, the random movement of Brownian particles in a liquid is expected to be replaced by ballistic motion. So far, an experimental verification of this prediction has been out of reach due to a lack of i ...

Plasma membrane tension and the pressure generated by actin polymerization are two antagonistic forces believed to define the protrusion rate at the leading edge of migrating cells [1-5]. Quantitatively, resistance to actin protrusion is a product of membr ...

By a micro-experimental methodology, we study the ongoing molecular process inside coarse fibrin networks by means of microrheology. We made these networks gelate around a probe microbead, allowing us to observe a temporal evolution compatible with the wel ...

The motion of an optically trapped sphere constrained by the vicinity of a wall is investigated at times where hydrodynamic memory is significant. First, we quantify, in bulk, the influence of confinement arising from the trapping potential on the sphere's ...

We investigate the diffusive motion of micron-sized spherical tracers in a viscoelastic actin filament network over the time span of 8 orders of magnitude using optical-tweezers single-particle tracking. The hydrodynamic interactions of a tracer with the s ...

Uniformly dispersed deposition of various nanoparticles (gold and silver of 20?50 nm) and nanowires (ZnO and VOx) on different surfaces (Si, GaAs, mica, and steel) was obtained by boiling colloid drops on preheated substrates. Our results suggest a deposit ...

Thermal position fluctuations of a colloidal particle in an optical trap are measured with microsecond resolution using back-focal-plane interferometry. The mean-square displacement MSD(t) and power spectral density are in excellent agreement with the theo ...

This paper presents experimental and numerical studies of erythrocyte stretching, with a focus on the aging of red blood cells in an in vitro environment during storage. The experimental studies were performed using optical tweezers. The laser beam was use ...

We have developed an in situ method to calibrate optical tweezers experiments and simultaneously measure the size of the trapped particle or the viscosity of the surrounding fluid. The positional fluctuations of the trapped particle are recorded with a hig ...

The thermal position fluctuations of a single micron-sized sphere immersed in a fluid were recorded by optical trapping interferometry with nanometer spatial and microsecond temporal resolution. We find, in accord with the theory of Brownian motion includi ...

Perovskite alkaline niobates, due to their strong nonlinear optical properties, including birefringence and the capability to produce second-harmonic generation (SHG) signals, attract a lot of attention as potential candidates for applications as local nan ...

Near-infrared (NIR) light sensitive lanthanide-doped NaYF4 upconversion particles (UCPs) are gaining increasing attention as local probes in biomedical applications. Here, we implemented a photonic force microscope (PFM) to manipulate and study the optical ...

Einstein's stochastic description of the random movement of small objects in a fluid, i.e. Brownian motion, reveals to be quite different, when observed on short timescales. The limitations of Einstein's theory with respect to particle inertia and hydrodyn ...

We study the Brownian motion of microbeads immersed in water and in a viscoelastic wormlike micelles solution by optical trapping interferometry and diffusing wave spectroscopy. Through the mean-square displacement obtained from both techniques, we deduce ...

The selectivity and speed of many biological transport processes(1) transpire from a 'reduction of dimensionality'(2) that confines diffusion to one or two dimensions instead of three(3). This behaviour remains highly sought after on polymeric surfaces(4) ...

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Resonances arising from hydrodynamic memory in Brownian motion

Synchrotron Infrared Microspectroscopy Detecting the Evolution of Huntington's Disease Neuropathology and Suggesting Unique Correlates of Dysfunction in White versus Gray Brain Matter

Calibration of optical tweezers with non-spherical probes via high-resolution detection of Brownian motion

Optical trapping microrheology in cultured human cells

Direct observation of the full transition from ballistic to diffusive Brownian motion in a liquid

Contact Angle at the Leading Edge Controls Cell Protrusion Rate

Filamentous and step-like behavior of gelling coarse fibrin networks revealed by high-frequency microrheology

Anisotropic memory effects in confined colloidal diffusion

Hydrodynamic and subdiffusive motion of tracers in a viscoelastic medium

Uniformly Dispersed Deposition of Colloidal Nanoparticles and Nanowires by Boiling

Motion of a colloidal particle in an optical trap

Red Blood Cell Aging During Storage, Studied Using Optical Tweezers Experiment

High-resolution detection of Brownian motion for quantitative optical tweezers experiments

Direct observation of nondiffusive motion of a Brownian particle

Single potassium niobate nano/microsized particles as local mechano-optical Brownian probes

Upconversion Particle as a Local Luminescent Brownian Probe: A Photonic Force Microscopy Study

Exploiting the color of Brownian motion for high-frequency microrheology of Newtonian fluids

Accounting for inertia effects to access the high-frequency microrheology of viscoelastic fluids

Selective transport control on molecular velcro made from intrinsically disordered proteins

Friction force microscopy as an alternative method to probe molecular interactions