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Two-point microrheology and diffusing wave spectroscopy
DOI:10.1122/8.0000664.png)
Abstract
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The dynamics of charged and hard-sphere silica colloidal suspensions are measured using diffusing wave spectroscopy and are interpreted by the Generalized Stokes-Einstein Relation (GSER). At high concentration, the resulting moduli are in good qualitative agreement with bulk rheology, including the frequency response, but are higher by a quantitative factor. We show that the two-point GSER, which derives from the correlated motion of the colloidal particles, provides a better quantitative agreement between bulk and microrheology. The two-point GSER applies generally when the average scattering vector sampled by the multiple scattering events corresponds to a length scale greater than the scatterer diameter. We discuss applications for characterizing colloid interactions by measuring the high-frequency moduli of suspensions and extend the two-point analysis to tracer particle microrheology measurements of a semiflexible biopolymer network.
Keywords:
microrheology
light scattering
Generalized Stokes-Einstein Relation (GSER)
high-frequency rheology

