microviscosity

English

Etymology

micro- +‎ viscosity

Noun

microviscosity (countable and uncountable, plural microviscosities)

  1. The friction experienced by a single particle undergoing diffusion because of its interaction with its environment at the micrometer length scale.
    • Both the crowding density and relative size of each co-solute in a mixture will contribute to the measured microviscosity as assessed by altered translational mobility. [1]
    • The friction experienced by a single particle can be thought of as a microscopic viscosity (microviscosity) and should not necessarily agree with the bulk viscosity since it is a measure of the probe's local friction whereas bulk viscosity analogously would be the measure of an infinitely large probe. "Aron Benjamin Goins" [2]

Synonyms
  • microscopic viscosity

References
  1. Goins, A.B., H. Sanabria, M. N. Waxham. 2008. Macromolecular crowding and size effects on probe microviscosity. Biophys. J. 95:5362-5373.
  2. Goins, A.B. 2008 (Thesis) Crowding and size effects on probe microviscosity for polymer cytosolic mimicry. https://web.archive.org/web/20111219031210/http://www.microviscosity.com/
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