Simultaneous characterization of rotational and translational diffusion of optically anisotropic particles by optical microscopy
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Data di Pubblicazione:
2016
Citazione:
Simultaneous characterization of rotational and translational diffusion of optically anisotropic particles by optical microscopy / F. Giavazzi, C. Haro Pérez, R. Cerbino. - In: JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER. - ISSN 0953-8984. - 28:19(2016 May 18). [10.1088/0953-8984/28/19/195201]
Abstract:
We probe the roto-translational Brownian motion of optically anisotropic particles suspended in water with a simple and straightforward optical microscopy experiment that does not require positional or rotational particle tracking. We acquire a movie of the suspension placed between two polarizing elements and we extract the translational diffusion coefficient D T and the rotational diffusion coefficient D R from the analysis of the temporal correlation properties of the spatial Fourier modes of the intensity fluctuations in the movie. Our method is successfully tested with a dilute suspension of birefringent spherical colloidal particles obtained by polymerizing an emulsion of droplets of liquid crystal in a nematic phase, whose roto-translational dynamics is found to be well described by theory. The simplicity of our approach makes our method a viable alternative to particle tracking and depolarized dynamic light scattering.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Brownian motion; microscopy; rotational diffusion; scattering; translational diffusion; condensed matter physics; materials science (all)
Elenco autori:
F. Giavazzi, C. Haro Pérez, R. Cerbino
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