Active microrheology determines scale-dependent material properties of Chaetopterus mucus.

Active microrheology determines scale-dependent material properties of Chaetopterus mucus.

We characterize the lengthscale-dependent rheological properties of mucus from the ubiquitous Chaetopterus marine worm. We use optically trapped probes (2-10 μm) to induce microscopic strains and measure the stress response as a function of oscillation amplitude. Our results show that viscoelastic p...

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Main Authors: W J Weigand, A Messmore, J Tu, A Morales-Sanz, D L Blair, D D Deheyn, J S Urbach, R M Robertson-Anderson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5451080?pdf=render

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