[HTML][HTML] The Asakura–Oosawa theory: Entropic forces in physics, biology, and soft matter

K Miyazaki, KS Schweizer, D Thirumalai… - The Journal of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
In 1954, Asakura and Oosawa 1 explained that nonadsorbing macromolecules can induce
attractive forces between colloidal particles in a single page paper in this journal. The …

Hybrid fibroin-nanocellulose composites for the consolidation of aged and historical silk

C Cianci, D Chelazzi, G Poggi, F Modi, R Giorgi… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2022 - Elsevier
Silk artifacts are a valuable artistic and historical heritage, but are prone to degradation that
makes the fibers fragile, hindering the preservation of precious collections. Dispersions of …

Clusters in colloidal dispersions with a short-range depletion attraction: Thermodynamic identification and morphology

F Soto-Bustamante, NE Valadez-Pérez, Y Liu… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Particle aggregation is ubiquitous for many colloidal systems, and drives the
phase separation or the formation of materials with a highly heterogeneous large-scale …

Thermodynamics, static properties and transport behaviour of fluids with competing interactions

R Perdomo-Pérez, J Martínez-Rivera… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Competing interaction fluids have become ideal model systems to study a large number of
phenomena, for example, the formation of intermediate range order structures, condensed …