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Shear Rheology of Interfaces: Micro Rheological Methods

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Microrheology offers several advantages over traditional macroscopic surface rheology: the use of very small samples, the possibility of studying heterogeneous samples and the broad range of frequency that can be explored. In this Chapter the microrheology of fluid interfaces is discussed, with special emphasis on particle tracking and optical tweezer techniques. We comment the main results and the assumptions of one of the recent theories aiming to describe the hydrodynamics of a particle trapped at a monolayer, and to obtain the interfacial shear modulus over a broad frequency range not available to macroscopic interfacial shear rheometers. Experimental results for a variety of systems are discussed.

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Acknowledgements

This work has been supported in part by MICINN under Grant FIS2012-38231-C02-01, by ESA under Grant FASES MAP-AO-00-052, and Pasta A.J. Mendoza and R. Chuliá are grateful to U.E. (Grant Marie-Curie-ITN “MULTIFLOW”) for a Ph.D. and a post-doc contract, respectively. F. Martínez Pedrero is grateful to the PICATA program (UCM) for a post-doc contract. We are grateful to Th.M. Fischer, R. Miller and L. Liggieri for helpful discussions.

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Mendoza, A.J. et al. (2013). Shear Rheology of Interfaces: Micro Rheological Methods. In: Rubio, R., et al. Without Bounds: A Scientific Canvas of Nonlinearity and Complex Dynamics. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34070-3_21

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