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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3 Pt 1
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-10-14
pubmed:abstractText
We measure hydrodynamic interactions between colloidal particles confined in a thin sheet of fluid. The reduced dimensionality, compared to a bulk fluid, increases dramatically the range of couplings. Using optical tweezers we force a two body system along the eigenmodes of the mobility tensor and find that eigenmobilities change logarithmically with particle separation. At a hundred radii distance, the mobilities for rigid and relative motions differ by a factor of 2, whereas in bulk fluids, they would be practically indistinguishable. A two dimensional counterpart of Oseen hydrodynamic tensor quantitatively reproduces the observed behavior, once the relevant boundary conditions are recognized. These results highlight the importance of dimensionality for transport and interactions in colloidal systems and proteins in biological membranes.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1539-3755
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
78
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
031406
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Hydrodynamic interactions in two dimensions.
pubmed:affiliation
CNR-INFM, CRS SOFT c/o Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza," I-00185, Roma, Italy. roberto.dileonardo@phys.uniroma1.it
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article