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Meibum Lipid Composition in Asians with Dry Eye Disease
10.1371/journal.pone.0024339PLoS ONE610
Aquatic Toxicology of Ionic Liquids (ILs)
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Spatially-resolved rotational microrheology with an optically-trapped sphere
We have developed a microrheometer, based on optical tweezers, in which hydrodynamic coupling between the probe and fluid boundaries is dramatically reduced relative to existing microrheometers. Rotational Brownian motion of a birefringent microsphere within an angular optical trap is observed by measuring the polarisation shifts of transmitted light. Data gathered in this manner, in the strongly viscoelastic fluid Celluvisc, quantitatively agree with the results of conventional (bulk) rheometry. Our technique will significantly reduce the smallest sample volumes which may be reliably probed, further extending the study of rare, difficult to obtain or highly nonhomogeneous fluids