Impelled by the need to find solutions to new challenges of modern technologies new
materials with unique properties are being explored. Among various new materials that …

Interest in fluids with strong magnetic properties has developed in recent years in
connection with technical applications. Artificially created magnetic fluids are suspensions of …

Active materials represent a new class of condensed matter in which motile elements may
collectively form dynamic, global structures out of equilibrium,,. Here, we present a general …

Suspensions of polarizable particles in nonpolarizable solvents form fibrillated structures in
strong electric fields. The resulting increase in viscosity of these" electrorheological" fluids …

Nanoscale zerovalent iron (NZVI) rapidly transforms many environmental contaminants to
benign products and is a promising in-situ remediation agent. To be effective, NZVI should …

Electrostatic correlations play an important role in physics, chemistry and biology. In
plasmas they result in thermodynamic instability similar to the liquid–gas phase transition of …

Granular materials are ubiquitous in our daily lives. While they have been the subject of
intensive engineering research for centuries, in the last two decades granular matter has …

Electrorheological (ER) suspensions, typically composed of nonconducting or weakly
conducting particles dispersed in an insulating liquid, undergo dramatic, reversible changes …

A key issue in research on ferrofluids (dispersions of magnetic colloids) is the effect of
dipolar interactions on their structure and phase behaviour,, which is not only important for …

Electro-rheology is the phenomenon in which the rheology of fluids is modified by the
imposition of electric fields. In this Review the nature of the fluids active in this role are …