Experimental Soft Condensed Matter Group Harvard University, Prof. D. A. Weitz A small movie of Brownian motion

In both cases the fluorescent particles are 2 microns in diameter. The left picture shows particles moving in pure water; the right picture shows particles moving in a concentrated solution of DNA, a viscoelastic solution in other words. The movies are 4 seconds of data, total; you can see a slight jump in the movie when it loops around.

With these sorts of images, we can do microrheology.

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