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We report a dynamic light scattering study on protein suspensions of bovine lens homogenates at conditions (pH and ionic strength) similar to the physiological ones. Light scattering data were collected at two temperatures, 20 oC and 37 oC,…

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We present a new method that combines fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) on the microsecond time scale with fluorescence antibunching measurements on the nanosecond time scale for measuring photophysical rate constants of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-28 Damir Sakhapov , Ingo Gregor , Narain Karedla , Jörg Enderlein

A lattice model is used to estimate the self-diffusivity of entangled cyclic and linear polymers in blends of varying compositions. To interpret simulation results, we suggest a minimal model based on the physical idea that constraints…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-21 Sachin Shanbhag

Self-consistent field theory (SCFT) is one of the most widely-used framework in studying the equilibrium phase behaviors of inhomogenous polymers. For liquid crystalline polymeric systems, the main numerical challenges of solving SCFT…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Zhijuan He , Kai Jiang , Liwei Tan , Xin Wang

The dynamic behavior of semi-dilute polymer solutions is governed by an interplay between solvent quality, concentration, molecular weight, and flow type. Semi-dilute solutions are characterized by large fluctuations in concentration,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-03 Kai-Wen Hsiao , Chandi Samsal , J. Ravi Prakash , Charles M. Schroeder

We examine the dynamics of silica particles grafted with high molecular weight polystyrene suspended in semidilute solutions of chemically similar linear polymer using x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy. The particle dynamics decouple…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-27 Ryan Poling-Skutvik , Ali H. Slim , Suresh Narayanan , Jacinta C. Conrad , Ramanan Krishnamoorti

We introduce a charge coupled device (CCD) camera based detection scheme in dynamic light scattering that provides information on the single-scattered auto-correlation function even for fairly turbid samples. It is based on the single…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Pavel Zakharov , Suresh Bhat , Peter Schurtenberger , Frank Scheffold

We couple a free solute diffusion model to a model of crystal surface growth represented by, but not limited to, a (2 + 1)-dimensional solid-on-solid (SOS) model confined by a flat surface. We use kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) with dissolution…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-03 Jørgen Høgberget , Dag K. Dysthe , Espen Jettestuen

The Dynamic Density Functional (DDF) theory and standard Brownian dynamics simulations (BDS) are used to study the drifting effects of a colloidal particle in a polymer solution, both for ideal and interacting polymers. The structure of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Penna , J. Dzubiella , P. Tarazona

We measured images and Fourier images of fluorescence for 0.11- and 0.22-$\mu$m-diameter dye-doped polystyrene micro-sphere beads on a solid immersion lens, and experimentally verified strongly-angle-dependent fluorescence intensities due…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-07 Masahiro Yoshita , Kazuko Koyama , Motoyoshi Baba , Hidefumi Akiyama

Aiming at improving performance of visual classification in a cost-effective manner, this paper proposes an incremental semi-supervised learning paradigm called Deep Co-Space (DCS). Unlike many conventional semi-supervised learning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Ziliang Chen , Keze Wang , Xiao Wang , Pai Peng , Ebroul Izquierdo , Liang Lin

Dynamic density functionals (DDFs) are popular tools for studying the dynamical evolution of inhomogeneous polymer systems. Here, we present a systematic evaluation of a set of diffusive DDF theories by comparing their predictions with data…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-07 Shuanhu Qi , Friederike Schmid

Imaging techniques such as functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and diffuse optical tomography (DOT) achieve deep, non-invasive sensing in turbid media, but they are constrained by the photon budget. Wavefront shaping (WFS) can…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-21 Pablo Jara , Arthur Goetschy , Hui Cao , Alexey Yamilov

We apply pulsed-field-gradient NMR (PFG NMR) technique to measure the translational diffusion for both uncharged and charged polysaccharide (Ficoll70) in water. Analysis of the data indicate that NMR signal attenuation above a certain…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-13 Swomitra Palit , Anand Yethiraj

The literature on self- and tracer- diffusion of polymers in solution, and on tracer diffusion of probe polymers through solutions of matrix polymers, is reviewed. I show via systematic reanalysis that the entirety of the published…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-29 George D. J. Phillies

We derive the statistics of the signals generated by shape fluctuations of large molecules studied by feedback tracking microscopy. We account for the influence of intramolecular dynamics on the response of the tracking system, and derive a…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Kevin McHale , Hideo Mabuchi

We study bottlebrush macromolecules in a good solvent by small-angle neutron scattering (SANS), static light scattering (SLS), and dynamic light scattering (DLS). These polymers consist of a linear backbone to which long side chains are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Bolisetty , C. Airaud , Y. Xu , A. H. E. Mueller , L. Harnau , S. Rosenfeldt , P. Lindner , M. Ballauff

The self-consistent field theory is a popular and highly successful theoretical framework for studying equilibrium (co)polymer systems at the mesoscopic level. Dynamic density functionals allow one to use this framework for studying…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-15 Friederike Schmid , Bing Li

Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Cross Correlation Spectroscopy (TIR-FCCS) has recently (S. Yordanov et al., Optics Express 17, 21149 (2009)) been established as an experimental method to probe hydrodynamic flows near surfaces, on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-30 R. Schmitz , S. Yordanov , H. J. Butt , K. Koynov , B. Duenweg

The properties of semidilute polymer solutions are investigated at equilibrium and under shear flow by mesoscale simulations, which combine molecular dynamics simulations and the multiparticle collision dynamics approach. In semidilute…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-19 Chien-Cheng Huang , Roland G. Winkler , Godehard Sutmann , Gerhard Gompper