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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 10.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Phys. 2006 Jan 1;74(2):123–133. doi: 10.1119/1.2142789

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Colloidal free expansion setup to illustrate diffusion involving small numbers of particles. (a) Schematic of experimental setup. (b) Several snapshots from the experiment. (c) Normalized histogram of particle positions during the experiment. The solution to the diffusion equation for the microfluidic “free expansion” experiment is superposed for comparison.