Soft matter is studied with a large portfolio of methods. Light scattering and video microscopy
are the most employed at optical wavelengths. Light scattering provides ensemble-averaged …

Soft materials are usually defined as materials made of mesoscopic entities, often self-
organised, sensitive to thermal fluctuations and to weak perturbations. Archetypal examples …

Differential dynamic microscopy (DDM) is a technique that exploits optical microscopy to
obtain local, multi-scale quantitative information about dynamic samples, in most cases …

We use dynamic near field scattering to measure the dynamics of concentration non
equilibrium fluctuations at the steady-state of Soret separation. The analysis reveals that …

Thermodiffusion in ternary mixtures is considered prototypic for the Soret effect of truly
multicomponent systems. We discuss ground-based measurements of the Soret coefficient …

The present work provides a systematic study on the influence of sample properties and
experimental conditions on the reliable accessibility of Fick or mutual diffusion coefficients D …

We investigate the non-equilibrium fluctuations occurring during free diffusion between two
solutions of glycerol and water with various concentration differences. The non-linearity of …

The present work demonstrates the accessibility of the Fick diffusion coefficient D 11 and/or
the thermal diffusivity a of the binary mixtures dicyclohexylmethane/diphenylmethane, n …

The autocorrelation function is a statistical tool that is often combined with dynamic light
scattering (DLS) techniques to investigate the dynamical behavior of the scattered light …

Nonequilibrium temperature and concentration fluctuations inside a binary liquid mixture
under the action of a temperature gradient relax back to equilibrium either due to conduction …