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  title info:
    title: Microrheology with optical tweezers
    sub title: principles and applications
  name:
    name part: Tassieri, Manlio
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Taylor & Francis
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: Annotation Thanks to the pioneering works of Ashkin and coworkers, optical tweezers (OTs) have become an invaluable tool for myriad studies throughout the natural sciences. Their success relies on the fact that they can be considered as exceptionally sensitive transducers that are able to resolve pN forces and nm displacements, with high temporal resolution, down to ¿s. Hence their application to study a wide range of biological phenomena such as measuring the compliance of bacterial tails, the forces exerted by a single motor protein, and the mechanical properties of human red blood cells and of individual biological molecules. The number of articles related to them totals to a whopping 58,000 (source Google Scholar)!Microrheology is a branch of rheology, but it works at micrometer length scales and with microliter sample volumes. Therefore, microrheology techniques have been revealed to be very useful tools for all those rheological/mechanical studies where rare or precious materials are employed, such as in biological and biomedical studies. The aim of this book is to provide a pedagogical introduction to the physics principles governing both the optical tweezers and their application in the field of microrheology of complex materials. This is achieved by following a linear path that starts from a narrative introduction of the "nature of light," followed by a rigorous description of the fundamental equations governing the propagation of light through matter. Moreover, some of the many possible instrumental configurations are presented, especially those that better adapt to perform microrheology measurements. In order to better appreciate the microrheological methods with optical tweezers explored in this book, informative introductions to the basic concepts of linear rheology, statistical mechanics, and the most popular microrheology techniques are also given. Furthermore, an enlightening prologue to the general applications of optical tweezers different from rhe…
  table of contents: Part 1. Introduction -- part 2. Optical tweezers -- part 3. Microrheology.
  note: edited by Manlio Tassieri.
  note: Title from content provider.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  subject:
    topic: Rheology
  subject:
    topic: Rhéologie
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Mechanics
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Mechanics
    topic: Solids
  subject:
    topic: Rheology
  classification: QC189.5
  classification: 531/.1134
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      title: Microrheology with optical tweezers
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      publisher: ©20
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    record creation date: 160308
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