A milestone I had been chasing for a long time.
The key idea: using carbon nanotubes as perfect tunable 1D dipoles at the single-particle level, together with a dipole spread function engineering approach.
Great collaboration with Jana Zaumseil, Ben Flavel, Sophie Brasselet, and Laurent Groc
Laurent Cognet
Nanoscale rheological heterogeneity revealed by Single Particle orientation Tracking (SPoT) of ultrashort carbon nanotubes in brain tissue https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.04.721587v1