Experimental investigation of critical Casimir forces in binary liquid mixtures by blinking optical tweezers
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2017
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Proceedings of the OSA Biophotonics Congress: Optical Trapping Applications, 2017
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We investigate, for the first time and by blinking optical tweezers, the effects of critical Casimir forces (CCFs) on the free dynamics of a pair of spherical colloidal particles, immersed in binary liquid mixtures upon approaching their critical points.