Colloids have increasingly been used to characterize or mimic many aspects of atomic and
molecular systems. With confocal microscopy these colloidal particles can be tracked …

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

Many fundamental issues in classical condensed matter physics can be addressed
experimentally using systems of individually visible mesoscopic particles playing the role of …

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 …

Recently, a novel colloidal hard-rod-like model system was developed which consists of
silica rods [Kuijk et al., JACS, 2011, 133, 2346]. Here, we present a study of the phase …

▪ Abstract This review discusses the recent progress that has been made in the application
of computer simulations to study crystal nucleation in colloidal systems. We discuss the …

The development of model materials and image processing methods to directly visualize
and quantify colloidal rod assembly by means of confocal laser scanning microscopy …

We investigate sedimentation of model hard-sphere-like colloidal dispersions confined in
horizontal capillaries using laser scanning confocal microscopy, dynamical density …

Over the last decade, the light microscope has become increasingly useful as a quantitative
tool for studying colloidal systems. The ability to obtain particle coordinates in bulk samples …

DC electric fields are used to produce colloidal assemblies with orientational and layered
positional order from a dilute suspension of spheroidal particles. These 3D assemblies …