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Published on: April 19, 2018
Microrheology of viscoelastic fluids containing light-scattering inclusions
Catalina Haro-Pérez1, Efrén Andablo-Reyes, Pedro Díaz-Leyva
1Instituto de Física Manuel Sandoval Vallarta, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Alvaro Obregón 64, 78000 San Luis Potosí, SLP, Mexico.
Abstract:
The microrheology of viscoelastic fluids containing light-scattering inclusions is measured by depolarized dynamic light scattering (DDLS) from optically anisotropic spherical colloidal probes. The anisotropy of the probes allows us to measure both their translational and the rotational mean squared displacements simultaneously, and DDLS allows us to suppress the light scattered from the inclusions. The storage and loss moduli are determined from both mean squared displacements and the results compared with mechanical measurements.
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