Aggregation behavior of nanoparticles: Revisiting the phase diagram of colloids

M Bini, G Brancolini, V Tozzini - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Surface functionalization of metal nanoparticles (NPs), eg, using peptides and proteins, has
recently attracted a considerable attention in the field of design of therapeutics and …

Development and characterization of econazole topical gel

MF Bayan, B Chandrasekaran, MH Alyami - Gels, 2023 - mdpi.com
The purpose of this work was to develop a novel topical formulation of econazole nitrate
based on gel that can be easily scaled up in one pot for the potential treatment of fungal and …

Guiding the self-assembly of colloidal diamond

S Marín-Aguilar, F Camerin, M Dijkstra - The Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The assembly of colloidal cubic diamond is a challenging process since the shape and
interaction parameters and the thermodynamic conditions where this structure is stable are …

High salinity effects on the depletion attraction in colloid-polymer mixtures

X Zhou, L Lei, Y Zeng, X Lu, F Liang, L Zhang… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Depletion attraction induced by polymers can be employed across multiple
disciplines. Previous studies implied that besides screening the electrostatic repulsion …

[HTML][HTML] Arrested spinodal decomposition of the screened symmetric restricted primitive model

N Benitez-Camacho, JM Olais-Govea… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Amorphous solids, such as glasses and gels, arise as the asymptotic limit of non-equilibrium
and irreversible relaxation aging processes. These amorphous solids form when the system …

Interparticle interaction-dependent jamming in colloids: insights into glass transition and morphology modulation during rapid evaporation-induced assembly

S Mehta, J Bahadur, SK Sharma, D Sen - Soft Matter, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Understanding the role of interparticle interactions in jamming phenomena is essential for
gaining insights into the intriguing glass transition behavior observed in atomic and …

Development of a coarse-grained model for surface-functionalized gold nanoparticles: towards an accurate description of their aggregation behavior

E Petretto, P Campomanes, S Vanni - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Understanding the dispersion stability and aggregation propensity of self-assembled
monolayer gold NPs at a molecular level is crucial to guide their rational design and to …

Evolutionary optimization of the Verlet closure relation for the hard-sphere and square-well fluids

E Bedolla, LC Padierna, R Castañeda-Priego - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The Ornstein–Zernike equation is solved for the hard-sphere and square-well fluids using a
diverse selection of closure relations; the attraction range of the square-well is chosen to be …

Variability of entropy force and its coupling with electrostatic and steric hindrance interactions

S Zhou - Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigated the effective interaction potential (EIP) between charged surfaces in solvent
comprised of dipole dimer molecules added with a certain amount of ionic liquid. Using …

Shear-induced vorticity aligned flocs in a temperature responsive colloid-polymer mixture

R Rel, D Terwilliger, R McGorty - Frontiers in Physics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Shear driven patterning is seen in many soft matter systems. We use rheology and optical
microscopy to probe the structures formed when we shear a colloid-polymer mixture …