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Monitoring spatially heterogeneous dynamics in a drying colloidal thin film

  • Zakharov, Pavel Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Scheffold, Frank Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland - Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
    2010
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  • Soft Materials. - 2010, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 102-113
Colloids
Dynamic light scattering
Film drying
Heterogeneous dynamics
Jamming
Speckle imaging
English We report on a new type of experiment that enables us to monitor spatially and temporally heterogeneous dynamic properties in complex fluids. Our approach is based on the analysis of near-field speckles produced by light diffusely reflected from the superficial volume of a strongly scattering medium. By periodic modulation of an incident speckle beam we obtain pixel-wise ensemble averages of the structure function coefficient, a measure of the dynamic activity. To illustrate the application of our approach we follow the different stages in the drying process of a colloidal thin film. We show that we can access ensemble averaged dynamic properties on length scales as small as ten micrometers over the full field of view.
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Faculté des sciences et de médecine
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Département de Physique
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  • English
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Physics
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