Boundary walls have a strong influence on the drag force on optically trapped object near surface. Faxen’s correction has shown how a flat surface modifies the hydrodynamic drag. However, to date, the effect of curved walls at microscopic scale on both translational and rotational movement of micro-objects has not been studied. Here we describe our experiments which aim to study the drag force on optically trapped particles moving near walls with different curvatures.
The curved walls were made using 3D laser nano-printing (Nanoscribe), and optical tweezers were used to trap micro-objects near the walls. The translational and rotational motion of the optically trapped particle is related to the drag coefficients. By monitoring the change in the motion of particle, we determined the increase in drag force for particles translating or rotating at different distances from surfaces with different curvatures.
These results are essential for calibrating the drag force on particles, and thus enable accurate rheology at the micron-scale. This opens the potential for microrheology under different conditions, such as within microdevices, biological cells and studies of biological processes
Microrheology, the study of the behavior of fluids on the microscopic scale, has been and continues to be one of the most important subjects that can be applied to characterize the behavior of biological fluids. It is extremely difficult to make rapid measurement of the viscoelastic properties of the interior of living cells. Liposomes are widely used as model system for studying different aspects of cell biology. We propose to develop a microrheometer, based on real-time control of optical tweezers, in order to investigate the viscoelastic properties of the fluid inside liposomes. This will give greater understanding of the viscoelastic properties of the fluids inside cells. In our experiment, the liposomes are prepared by different methods to find out both a better way to make GUVs and achieve efficient encapsulation of particle. By rotating the vaterite inside a liposome via spin angular momentum, the optical torque can be measured by measuring the change of polarization of the transmitted light, which allows the direct measurement of viscous drag torque since the optical torque is balanced by the viscous drag. We present an initial feasibility demonstration of trapping and manipulation of a microscopic vaterite inside the liposome. The applied method is simple and can be extended to sensing within the living cells.
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