Local dynamic mechanical analysis for heterogeneous soft matter using ferrule-top indentation† †Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available. See DOI: 10.1039/c6sm00300a Click here for additional data file.

We present a mm-sized, all-optical probe that can accurately quantify and map the viscoelastic properties of highly heterogeneous soft matter.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Soft Matter

• Publication date

  2016-02-24

• Fields of study

  Materials Science, Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1039/c6sm00300aPMID 26908197PMCID 4819682
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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