Confocal laser scanning microscopy: Applications in material science and technology

BVR Tata, B Raj - Bulletin of Materials Science, 1998 - Springer
Confocal laser scanning microscope (CLSM) has great advantage over a conventional
microscope because it rejects the light that does not come from the focal plane, enabling …

Computer simulations of charge and steric stabilised colloidal suspensions

M Dijkstra - Current opinion in colloid & interface science, 2001 - Elsevier
Computer simulations of colloidal suspensions are prohibited by slow equilibration as very
different length and time scales are involved for the various species. This is the reason that …

Influence of counterion valency on the scattering properties of highly charged polyelectrolyte solutions

Y Zhang, JF Douglas, BD Ermi, EJ Amis - The Journal of Chemical …, 2001 - pubs.aip.org
Light and neutron scattering measurements on highly charged polyelectrolyte solutions
have recently provided firm evidence for the existence of “domain structures” containing …

Reentrant solid-liquid transition in ionic colloidal dispersions by varying particle charge density

J Yamanaka, H Yoshida, T Koga, N Ise, T Hashimoto - Physical review letters, 1998 - APS
The influence of the particle surface charge density on the solid-liquid phase transition in
electrostatically stabilized colloidal silica and polymer latex dispersions is examined. Both …

Amorphous clustering in highly charged dilute poly (chlorostyrene-styrene sulfonate) colloids

BVR Tata, E Yamahara, PV Rajamani, N Ise - Physical review letters, 1997 - APS
Poly (chlorostyrene-styrene sulfonate) particles are synthesized to determine structural
ordering by the ultrasmall-angle x-ray scattering technique. We report amorphous clustering …

Transitions between ordered and disordered phases and their coexistence in dilute ionic colloidal dispersions

H Yoshida, J Yamanaka, T Koga, T Koga, N Ise… - Langmuir, 1999 - ACS Publications
Order− disorder transitions in dilute aqueous dispersions of ionic colloids were studied
experimentally in colloidal silica and polymer latex systems. A three-dimensional phase …

How homogeneous are “homogeneous dispersions”? Counterion-mediated attraction between like-charged species

N Ise, T Konishi, BVR Tata - Langmuir, 1999 - ACS Publications
In solutions or dispersions, solute distributions are considered to be more or less
homogeneous and space-filling, particularly for concentrated ones. This is not …

Interaction potentials, structural ordering and effective charges in dispersions of charged colloidal particles

M Quesada-Pérez, J Callejas-Fernández… - Advances in colloid and …, 2002 - Elsevier
As colloidal dispersions of charged particles exhibit a wide variety of commercial,
technological and scientific applications, a considerable theoretical effort has been devoted …

Ordering, dynamics and phase transitions in charged colloids

BVR Tata, SS Jena - Solid state communications, 2006 - Elsevier
Among the various soft matter systems, charge stabilized colloidal dispersions have gained
recognition as tremendously useful model condensed matter systems because of their …

Monte Carlo study of structural ordering in charged colloids using a long-range attractive interaction

BVR Tata, N Ise - Physical Review E, 1998 - APS
Monte Carlo simulations have been carried out for aqueous charged colloidal suspensions
interacting via an effective pair potential U s (r), which has the long-range attractive term in …