Nanoscale rheological heterogeneity revealed by Single Particle orientation Tracking (SPoT) of ultrashort carbon nanotubes in brain tissue
Limeng Ruan, Hanna Manko, Quentin Gresil, Luis A. Alemán-Castañeda, Morgane Meras, Finn L. Sebastian, Ivo Calaresu, Benjamin Flavel, Jana Zaumseil, Laurent Groc, Sophie Brasselet, M. Tondusson, Laurent Cognet
This paper introduces SPoT, a method to track carbon nanotubes in brain tissue to study nanoscale rheological heterogeneity by analyzing translational and rotational dynamics.
bioRxiv · Aug 3, 2026 · PreprintBiophysics