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SOFT MATTER
Volume 6, Issue 18, Pages 4550-4555Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c003344h
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- NSF [DMR-0602684]
- Harvard MRSEC [DMR-0820484]
- Italy (FIRB) [RBIN045NMB]
- Apulia Regional Strategic Project [PS144]
- Germany (Bayerische Forschungsstiftung)
- German Excellence Initiative (NIM)
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We present a simple method for accessing the elastic properties of microscopic deformable particles. This method is based on measuring the pressure-induced deformation of soft particles as they are forced through a tapered glass microcapillary. It allows us to determine both the compressive and the shear modulus of a deformable object in one single experiment. Measurements on a model system of polyacrylamide microgel particles exhibit good agreement with measurements on bulk gels of identical composition. Our approach is applicable over a wide range of mechanical properties and should thus be a valuable tool for the characterization of a variety of soft and biological materials.
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