Depending on the volume fraction and interparticle interactions, colloidal suspensions can
form different phases, ranging from fluids, crystals, and glasses to gels. For soft microgels …

To explore dense packings of soft colloids, scattering experiments are ideal to access the
structure factor. However, for soft microgels, determination of the structure factor is difficult …

Thermoresponsive microgels are soft colloids that find widespread use as model systems for
soft matter physics. Their complex internal architecture, made of a disordered and …

Thermoresponsive microgels are soft colloids that find widespread use as model systems for
soft matter physics. Their complex internal architecture, made of a disordered and …

Controlled crystallization, melting and vitrification are important fundamental processes in
nature and technology. However, the microscopic details of these fundamental phenomena …

Thermoresponsive microgels find widespread use as colloidal model systems, because their
temperature-dependent size allows facile tuning of their volume fraction in situ. However, an …

Soft colloids are widely used to study glass transition, aging and jamming. A high size
polydispersity is typically introduced in these systems to avoid crystal formation. Here, we …

Thermoresponsive microgels undergo a volume phase transition from a swollen state under
good solvent conditions to a collapsed state under poor solvent conditions. The most …

We present a small-angle x-ray scattering study of crystals formed by temperature-sensitive,
swollen microgel particles consisting of poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) copolymerized with …

Soft particles such as polymeric microgels can form ultra-dense phases, where the average
center-to-center distance as can be smaller than the initial unperturbed particle diameter σ 0 …