Some Optical Tweezers-Based Rheology Conclusions, and a New Microscopy Technique

Condensed Matter lunchtime seminar

Some Optical Tweezers-Based Rheology Conclusions, and a New Microscopy Technique

  • Event time: 1:00pm
  • Event date: 1st September 2008
  • Speaker: Laurence Wilson (Formerly School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
  • Location: Room 2511,

Event details

I am going to present a summary of the colloid work that I've been doing for the last four years or so, including comparison with other simulations and experiments - some of the conclusions are quite surprising. Secondly, I'll speak about a new technique that I've been developing, based on a Phys. Rev. Lett. by Cerbino and Trappe earlier this year. Video microscopy sequences are examined, in order to shed light on the diffusive behaviour of suspensions; the technique shares some aspects with dynamic light scattering - that is to say, I do not use particle tracking. This approach has great promise as a tool in the biological arena, for measuring motility and diffusion.} }

%@meeting{html, % date = {23 Jun 2008}, % speaker ={Wilson Poon}, % title={How many kinds of colloidal gels are there?}, % abstract={I propose a unified description of the gelation of spherical % colloids interacting with isotropic, short-range attraction. The % proposal is supported by a large range of literature data on structure, % time evolution and rheology, published by us and others. Recent reanalysis % of our own work on delayed sedimentation as well as simulations done in % collaboration with the group in Rome provide further evidence for the % correctness of my proposed scheme, which predicts that there are of the % order of 10 different kinds of colloidal gels possible even in such an % apparently simple system.

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