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Filamentous and step-like behavior of gelling coarse fibrin networks revealed by high-frequency microrheology

By a micro-experimental methodology, we study the ongoing molecular process inside coarse fibrin networks by means of microrheology. We made these networks gelate around a probe microbead, allowing us to observe a temporal evolution compatible with the wel ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Interplay between optical, viscous, and elastic forces on an optically trapped Brownian particle immersed in a viscoelastic fluid

László Forró, Sylvia Jeney

We provide a detailed study of the interplay between the different interactions which appear in the Brownian motion of a micronsized sphere immersed in a viscoelastic fluid measured with optical trapping interferometry. To explore a wide range of viscous, ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Single potassium niobate nano/microsized particles as local mechano-optical Brownian probes

László Forró, Arnaud Magrez, Andrzej Sienkiewicz, Flavio Maurizio Mor, Sylvia Jeney

Perovskite alkaline niobates, due to their strong nonlinear optical properties, including birefringence and the capability to produce second-harmonic generation (SHG) signals, attract a lot of attention as potential candidates for applications as local nan ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

Calibration of optical tweezers with non-spherical probes via high-resolution detection of Brownian motion

László Forró, Richard Gaal, Flavio Maurizio Mor, Sylvia Jeney

Optical tweezers are commonly used and powerful tools to perform force measurements on the piconewton scale and to detect nanometer-scaled displacements. However, the precision of these instruments relies to a great extent on the accuracy of the calibratio ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

Red Blood Cell Aging During Storage, Studied Using Optical Tweezers Experiment

Sylvia Jeney, Hanieh Mohammadi

This paper presents experimental and numerical studies of erythrocyte stretching, with a focus on the aging of red blood cells in an in vitro environment during storage. The experimental studies were performed using optical tweezers. The laser beam was use ...

Springer2015

Upconversion Particle as a Local Luminescent Brownian Probe: A Photonic Force Microscopy Study

László Forró, Andrzej Sienkiewicz, Flavio Maurizio Mor, Sylvia Jeney

Near-infrared (NIR) light sensitive lanthanide-doped NaYF4 upconversion particles (UCPs) are gaining increasing attention as local probes in biomedical applications. Here, we implemented a photonic force microscope (PFM) to manipulate and study the optical ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Accounting for inertia effects to access the high-frequency microrheology of viscoelastic fluids

László Forró, Sylvia Jeney, Elena Bertseva, Frank Scheffold

We study the Brownian motion of microbeads immersed in water and in a viscoelastic wormlike micelles solution by optical trapping interferometry and diffusing wave spectroscopy. Through the mean-square displacement obtained from both techniques, we deduce ...

Amer Physical Soc2014

Contact Angle at the Leading Edge Controls Cell Protrusion Rate

László Forró, Jean-Jacques Meister, Niccolo Piacentini, Chiara Gabella, Alexander Verkhovskiy, Sylvia Jeney, Elena Bertseva, Alicia Carine Bornert

Plasma membrane tension and the pressure generated by actin polymerization are two antagonistic forces believed to define the protrusion rate at the leading edge of migrating cells [1-5]. Quantitatively, resistance to actin protrusion is a product of membr ...

Elsevier2014

Selective transport control on molecular velcro made from intrinsically disordered proteins

Sylvia Jeney

The selectivity and speed of many biological transport processes(1) transpire from a 'reduction of dimensionality'(2) that confines diffusion to one or two dimensions instead of three(3). This behaviour remains highly sought after on polymeric surfaces(4) ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Exploiting the color of Brownian motion for high-frequency microrheology of Newtonian fluids

László Forró, Flavio Maurizio Mor, Sylvia Jeney

Einstein's stochastic description of the random movement of small objects in a fluid, i.e. Brownian motion, reveals to be quite different, when observed on short timescales. The limitations of Einstein's theory with respect to particle inertia and hydrodyn ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2013