Soft materials are ubiquitous in our daily lives, from the food we eat to the products we use to the materials that make up our bodies. Some examples of soft materials include cream, toothpaste, and blood. Most soft materials are complex fluids, which means that they contain a macroscopically uniform mixture of two or more phases.
The dynamic competition between the structures of phases in a soft material can have a significant impact on not only its properties, but also the tunability and reversibility of these properties. For example, some liquid becomes more fluidic temporarily after a shear is applied .
In PCS, an optical laser is transmitted through the nanoparticle suspension and the variation of the nanoparticle position is evaluated via the temporal decorrelation of the intensity of the scattered light. However, PCS is not suitable for materials that are opaque. In addition, PCS cannot measure diffusivity of systems where the particles are not freely diffusive and the dynamics cannot be described by Einstein-Stokes equation .
The biggest disadvantage of XPCS is that it is much less available than PCS. First of all, there are currently fewer than 10 synchrotrons worldwide capable of performing XPCS experiments. Second of all, the coherent X-ray is obtained by spatially cropping the synchrotron X-ray beam to select the coherent portion, which results in a 10 to 100 times reduction of the X-ray flux.
At the end of the measurement, the drop is aspirated back into the pipette tip for disposal without human-handling. The XPCS results from the pendant drop are then compared against two reference sample setups to validate the pendant drop setup for the use of XPCS measurements. Reference setup 1 is a 40 mm-length thin-walled quartz capillary from Charles Supper Co. Inc., and reference setup 2 is an aluminum liquid cell sealed with externally-threaded polycarbonate caps.
In the paper, an exposure time of 3.7 microseconds and a burst of 12 frames are used, resulting in an effective frame rate of 272 kHz and a duty cycle of 4.4%.
All robotic motions are programmed using open-source software , and orchestrated using the Workflow Execution Interface developed at Argonne National Laboratory. WEI allows intricate workflows to be divided into modules, with each module specified in human-readable text format . It also utilizes various executors, such as the Python interface to the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System and Robotic Operating System , to facilitate inter-module communication.
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