Microscopic Viscoelasticity: Shear Moduli of Soft Materials Determined from Thermal Fluctuations

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1997-09-20

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9709228v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

5 pages, with 2 PostScript figures (to be published in PRL)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.3286

We describe a high-resolution, high-bandwidth technique for determining the local viscoelasticity of soft materials such as polymer gels. Loss and storage shear moduli are determined from the power spectra of thermal fluctuations of embedded micron-sized probe particles, observed with an interferometric microscope. This provides a passive, small-amplitude measurement of rheological properties over a much broader frequency range than previously accessible to microrheology. We study both F-actin biopolymer solutions and polyacrylamide (PAAm) gels, as model semiflexible and flexible systems, respectively. We observe high-frequency omega^(3/4) scaling of the shear modulus in F-actin solutions, in contrast to omega^(1/2) scaling for PAAm.

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