English edit

Etymology edit

micro- +‎ rheology

Noun edit

microrheology (uncountable)

  1. A technique capable of measuring microviscosity
  2. (physics) The branch of rheology that deals with emulsions and heterogeneous mixtures

Quotations edit

  • "Using a microrheological technique, single molecule diffusion can be used to obtain a microviscosity which contains information about the local

environment. "Aron Benjamin Goins" [1]

  • "As is the case for polymers in general, large deviations of the viscosity measured rheologically from that determined using

microrheological techniques such as MP-FCS can occur." [2]

References edit

  1. ^ Goins, A.B. 2008 (Thesis) Crowding and size effects on probe microviscosity for polymer cytosolic mimicry. https://web.archive.org/web/20111219031210/http://www.microviscosity.com/
  2. ^ Goins, A.B., H. Sanabria, M. N. Waxham. 2008. Macromolecular crowding and size effects on probe microviscosity. Biophys. J. 95:5362-5373.