Techniques and Tutorials

Rheology

• Rheology of Soft Materials – Sujit Datta
• Introduction to Rheology – David Vader and Hans Wyss
• More Non-Linear Rheology – David Vader
• Microrheology explanation

Particle tracking

• 3D particle tracking tutorial — courtesy of Eric Weeks
• Matlab Particle Tracking
• IDL routines for particle tracking
• High performance particle tracking codes

Paper writing

• Weitzlab Guide to Good Paper Writing (Updated 5/01/2012)

Others

• Dynamic Light Scattering – Tom Kodger
• Optical Tweezers – Kosta Ladavac
• Scattering for Dummies? – Tommy Angelini
• Techniques for Synthesizing Polymer Particles – Jin-Woong Kim
• IDL routine to make an animated GIF — courtesy of Eric Weeks

Group Theses:

• Suliana Manley – Mechanical Stability of Fractal Colloidal Gels
• Peter Lu – Gelation and Phase Separation of Attractive Colloids
• Michael Nikolaides – Colloids at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces
• Vikram Prasad – Weakly Interacting Colloid Polymer Mixtures
• Megan Valentine – Mechanical and Microstructural Properties of Biological Materials
• Vernita Gordon – Measuring and Engineering Microscale Mechanical Responses and Properties of Bio-relevant Materials
• Margaret Gardel – Elasticity of F-Actin Networks
• Bivash Dasgupta – Microrheology and Dynamic Light Scattering Studies of Polymer Solutions