ER Weeks

"Microscopy of Soft Materials"
ER Weeks, book chapter in Experimental and Computational Techniques in Soft Condensed Matter Physics, ed. JS Olafsen, Cambridge University Press (2010).

This chapter discusses several types of optical microscopy, and provides several representative examples of how microscopy can be applied to study soft materials.

Chapter section titles:

Introduction
Video microscopy
Confocal microscopy
Strengths, weaknesses, and tradeoffs
Particle tracking
Specific Applications
- Structure of colloidal glasses
- Dynamics of colloidal glasses
- Microrheology: determining macroscopic properties from microscopic measurements
- Flow fields (example 1, example 2)
Summary

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