The past decade has witnessed remarkable advances in stimuli-responsive shape memory
polymers (SMPs) with potential applications in biomedical devices, aerospace, textiles, civil …

Hydrogels, a 3D network structure of polymer chains with significant water content, can be
formed of either natural or synthetic polymers; biopolymers are highly preferred for their …

Thermo-responsive polymers undergo a reversible coil-to-globule transition in water after
which the chains collapse and aggregate into bigger globules when passing to above its …

Colloidal dispersions have been studied for decades as a result of their utility in numerous
applications and as models for molecular and atomic condensed phases. More recently, a …

Thermoresponsive microgels find widespread use as colloidal model systems, because their
temperature-dependent size allows facile tuning of their volume fraction in situ. However, an …

Natural compounds cholic acid and β-cyclodextrin are attached separately as pendant
groups in a copolymer with N, N′-dimethylacrylamides. The formation of supramolecular …

This review collects and describes experiments that employ colloidal suspensions to probe
physics in ordered and disordered solids and related complex fluids. The unifying feature of …

The past decade has witnessed significant advancements in stimuli-responsive shape
changing polymers. The reversible switching transition is the most important feature of …

Suspensions of soft and highly deformable microgels can be concentrated far more than
suspensions of hard colloids, leading to their unusual mechanical properties. Microgels can …

We use rheological measurements to examine the yielding behavior of a microgel system
spanning the range from soft jammed glassy suspensions dominated by inter-particle …