Ultrafast viscosity measurement

In our latest article, Lars Madsen, Catxere CasacioAlex Terrasson, Warwick Bowen and collaborators measure the viscosity of a fluid within twenty microseconds and extreme precision—up to the point where the remnant uncertainty stems from its thermal molecular collisions. Read on in Nature Photonics!

A bead trapped in optical tweezers performs thermally driven motion.
From: Madsen, Lars S. et al. Ultrafast viscosity measurement with ballistic optical tweezers. Nat. Photonics (2021)