As a glass-forming liquid is cooled, the dynamics of its constituent particles changes from
being liquid-like to more solid-like. The solidity of the resulting glassy material is believed to …

Glass formation in colloidal suspensions has many of the hallmarks of glass formation in
molecular materials,,,,. For hard-sphere colloids, which interact only as a result of excluded …

The glass transition can be viewed simply as the point at which the viscosity of a structurally
disordered liquid reaches a universal threshold value. But this is an operational definition …

Controlling interparticle interactions, aggregation and cluster formation is of central
importance in a number of areas, ranging from cluster formation in various disease …

THE crystallization of'hard'spheres, which interact only through repulsive forces on contact,
is a purely entropic effect and provides a model system for testing theories of freezing …

Supercooled liquids—at temperatures below their normal freezing point—can undergo a
subtle transition to a microscopically fixed, yet amorphous, state: a glass. The temperature of …

Nanoscale or colloidal particles are important in many realms of science and technology.
They can dramatically change the properties of materials, imparting solid-like behaviour to a …

Amorphous glassy materials of diverse nature—concentrated emulsions, granular materials,
pastes, molecular glasses—display complex flow properties, intermediate between solid …

It has been suggested that a common conceptual framework known as 'jamming'(refs and)
may be used to classify a wide variety of physical systems; these include granular media …

A wide variety of materials ranging from metals to polymers can solidify as glasses rather
than crystals. The glass transition is associated with a slowing down of molecular motion: a …