Wetting phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and technology. A solid substrate exposed to
the environment is almost invariably covered by a layer of fluid material. In this review, the …

When systems that can undergo phase separation between two coexisting phases in the
bulk are confined in thin film geometry between parallel walls, the phase behavior can be …

Solutions of different polymers in the same solvent are incompatible as a rule and show
phase separation when they are mixed. H incompatibility is also to be observed in systems …

We studied the free fluid-fluid interface in a phase-separated colloid-polymer dispersion with
laser scanning confocal microscopy and directly observed thermally induced capillary …

In many colloidal suspensions, the micrometer-sized particles behave like hard spheres, but
when non-adsorbing polymers are added to the solution a depletion attraction (of entropic …

The concept of effective depletion forces between two fixed big colloidal particles in a bath of
small particles is generalized to a nonequilibrium situation where the bath of small Brownian …

We study the coalescence of a drop with its bulk phase in fluid–fluid demixing colloid–
polymer mixtures. Such mixtures show behaviour analogous to molecular fluid–fluid …

The function and stability of macromolecular systems, important in industrial and biological
processes, are governed not only by molecular size and shape, but also by temperature …

Recently it has been shown that a strongly interacting colloidal mixture consisting of
oppositely driven particles undergoes a nonequilibrium transition towards lane formation …

We describe two strategies for tackling the equilibrium statistical mechanics of
inhomogeneous colloid—polymer mixtures treated in terms of the simple Asakura—Oosawa …