microrheology
English
Etymology
micro- + rheology
Noun
microrheology (uncountable)
- A technique capable of measuring microviscosity
- (physics) The branch of rheology that deals with emulsions and heterogeneous mixtures
Quotations
- "Using a microrheological technique, single molecule diffusion can be used to obtain a microviscosity which contains information about the local
environment. "Aron Benjamin Goins" [1]
- "As is the case for polymers in general, large deviations of the viscosity measured rheologically from that determined using
microrheological techniques such as MP-FCS can occur." [2]
References
- Goins, A.B. 2008 (Thesis) Crowding and size effects on probe microviscosity for polymer cytosolic mimicry. https://web.archive.org/web/20111219031210/http://www.microviscosity.com/
- Goins, A.B., H. Sanabria, M. N. Waxham. 2008. Macromolecular crowding and size effects on probe microviscosity. Biophys. J. 95:5362-5373.