Optical interferometry based micropipette aspiration provides real-time sub-nanometer spatial resolution

Autor: Massimiliano Berardi, Kevin Bielawski, Niek Rijnveld, Grzegorz Gruca, Hilde Aardema, Leni van Tol, Gijs Wuite, B. Imran Akca
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Communications Biology, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2399-3642
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02121-1
Popis: Beradi et al. establish a micropipette aspiration platform which enables sensitive real-time viscoelastic measurements of soft biomaterials. They use it to characterize the rheological behavior of cells and soft materials at very small deformations, yielding consistent and reproducible values.
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