As one increases the concentration of a colloidal suspension, the system exhibits a dramatic
increase in viscosity. Beyond a certain concentration, the system is said to be a colloidal …

A vibrational model of transport properties of dense fluids assumes that solid-like oscillations
of atoms around their temporary equilibrium positions dominate the dynamical picture. The …

Motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), the phenomenon in which purely repulsive active
particles undergo a liquid-gas phase separation, is among the simplest and most widely …

The synthesis of iron oxide nanoparticles (NPs) by thermal decomposition of iron precursors
using oleic acid as surfactant has evolved to a state-of-the-art method to produce …

Quasi‐amorphous colloidal structures exhibiting angle‐independent tunable photonic colors
in response to the electric stimuli. Moderately polydisperse colloidal Fe 3 O 4@ SiO 2 …

Over the last number of years several simulation methods have been introduced to study
rare events such as nucleation. In this paper we examine the crystal nucleation rate of hard …

Colloidal model systems allow studying crystallization kinetics under fairly ideal conditions,
with rather well-characterized pair interactions and minimized external influences. In …

Tunable photonic crystals (TPCs) represent an important class of intelligent materials, which
can be used as optically active components and as functional technology to change an …

The simplicity of hard spheres as a model system is deceptive. Although the particles
interact solely through volume exclusion, that nevertheless suffices for a wealth of static and …

Nucleation is an activated process in which the system has to overcome a free energy
barrier in order for a first-order phase transition between the metastable and the stable …