Coherent light scattering from cellular dynamics in living tissues

DD Nolte - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2024‏ - iopscience.iop.org
This review examines the biological physics of intracellular transport probed by the coherent
optics of dynamic light scattering from optically thick living tissues. Cells and their …

Passive and active microrheology for biomedical systems

Y Mao, P Nielsen, J Ali - Frontiers in bioengineering and …, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Microrheology encompasses a range of methods to measure the mechanical properties of
soft materials. By characterizing the motion of embedded microscopic particles …

Autonomous assembly and disassembly of gliding molecular robots regulated by a DNA-based molecular controller

I Kawamata, K Nishiyama, D Matsumoto, S Ichiseki… - Science …, 2024‏ - science.org
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in engineering dynamic and autonomous
systems with robotic functionalities using biomolecules. Specifically, the ability of molecular …

Dynamic arrest and aging of biomolecular condensates are modulated by low-complexity domains, RNA and biochemical activity

M Linsenmeier, M Hondele, F Grigolato… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Biomolecular condensates require suitable control of material properties for their function.
Here we apply Differential Dynamic Microscopy (DDM) to probe the material properties of an …

Rheology and viscoelasticity of proteins and nucleic acids condensates

D Michieletto, M Marenda - JACS Au, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Phase separation is as familiar as watching vinegar separating from oil in vinaigrette. The
observation that phase separation of proteins and nucleic acids is widespread in living cells …

Differential dynamic microscopy for the characterization of polymer systems

R Cerbino, F Giavazzi… - Journal of Polymer …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
This review summarizes recent progress in investigating polymer systems by using
Differential dynamic microscopy (DDM), a rapidly emerging approach that transforms a …

Ab initio uncertainty quantification in scattering analysis of microscopy

M Gu, Y He, X Liu, Y Luo - Physical Review E, 2024‏ - APS
Estimating parameters from data is a fundamental problem in physics, customarily done by
minimizing a loss function between a model and observed statistics. In scattering-based …

Bulk rheometry at high frequencies: a review of experimental approaches

B Schroyen, D Vlassopoulos, P Van Puyvelde… - Rheologica Acta, 2020‏ - Springer
High-frequency rheology is a form of mechanical spectroscopy which provides access to fast
dynamics in soft materials and hence can give valuable information about the local scale …

Time-resolved mechanical spectroscopy of soft materials via optimally windowed chirps

M Geri, B Keshavarz, T Divoux, C Clasen, DJ Curtis… - Physical Review X, 2018‏ - APS
The ability to measure the bulk dynamic behavior of soft materials with combined time and
frequency resolution is instrumental for improving our fundamental understanding of …

Dynamic light scattering microrheology for soft and living materials

PC Cai, BA Kra**a, MJ Kratochvil, L Zou, A Zhu… - Soft Matter, 2021‏ - pubs.rsc.org
We present a method for using dynamic light scattering in the single-scattering limit to
measure the viscoelastic moduli of soft materials. This microrheology technique only …