ABSTRACT
During the last twenty years microrheology methods have emerged
as sensitive tools for the investigation of materials’ mechanical
properties at micro-and nano-length scales. Although the materials’
bulk properties are within their main targets, microrheology
techniques probe the materials’ dynamics at a microscopic level,
providing potentially a more direct link between the material’s
(micro-and nano-) structure and its mechanical properties. In
general, microrheology techniques are aimed at uncovering the
linear viscoelastic properties of materials by means of statistical
mechanical analysis of the trajectory of micron sized probe particles
suspended in the material under investigation.
