Suspensions of spherical colloidal particles in a liquid show a fascinating variety of phase
behaviour which can mimic that of simple atomic liquids and solids.'Colloidal fluids'1–4, in …

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 …

Colloidal suspensions of highly charged, monodisperse polymer spheres exhibit long-range
(crystalline) translational ordering in appropriate conditions of charge, number density …

The structure of, and transitions between, liquids, crystals and glasses have commonly been
studied with the hard-sphere model,,,,, in which the atoms are modelled as spheres that …

Although the idea that entropy alone is sufficient to produce an ordered state is an old one in
colloid science, the notion remains counter-intuitive and it is often assumed that attractive …

Sub-micrometre charged latex spheres can be suspended in water to form regular arrays
known as colloidal crystals. In contrast to most conventional solids, colloidal crystals can be …

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 …

A MIXTURE of two dissimilar species (A and B) may freeze to form a substitutionally ordered
crystal, the structure of which can vary from a lattice with only a few atoms per unit cell to a …

The addition of small 'seed'particles to a supersaturated solution can greatly increase the
rate at which crystals nucleate. This process is understood, at least qualitatively, when the …

Dispersions of colloidal particles exhibit thermodynamic properties similar to those of
molecular systems, including a hard sphere disorder-to-order transition. In experiments with …