In any medium there are fluctuations due to temperature or due to the quantum nature of its
constituents. If a material body is immersed into such a medium, its shape and the properties …

We review recent advances in the theoretical, numerical, and experimental studies of critical
Casimir forces in soft matter, with particular emphasis on their relevance for the structures of …

The occurrence of many micro/macrophenomena is closely related to interactions and
dynamics near interfaces. Hence, developing powerful tools for characterizing near-interface …

Patchy colloids promise the design and modelling of complex materials, but the realization
of equilibrium patchy particle structures remains challenging. Here, we assemble pseudo …

Despite their technological relevance, a full microscopic understanding of glasses is still
lacking. This applies even more to their surfaces whose properties largely differ from that of …

Many phenomena observed in synthetic and biological colloidal suspensions are dominated
by the static interaction energies and the hydrodynamic interactions that act both between …

Research into active colloids enable a better understanding of the formation of elementary
constituents of matter (atoms, molecules, etc.) into collective states that display a rich set of …

“Active matter” 1 refers to any system with a large number of individual agents, each of which
is capable of self-propulsion. Examples of active matter are the movement of a crowd …

The usual laws of thermodynamics are robust and can be applied to large range of
macroscopic systems. However, when thermal fluctuations are on the same scale as the …