This review summarizes and assesses recent theoretical and experimental advances, with
special emphasis on the effective interaction between charge-stabilized colloids, in the bulk …

Crystallization is one of the most important phase transformations of first order. In the case of
metals and alloys, the liquid phase is the parent phase of materials production. The …

By fixing charged colloidal crystals in a poly (acrylamide) hydrogel matrix, we fabricated
photonic crystals whose diffraction peak wavelengths were tunable by applying mechanical …

This book is designed to critically review experimental findings on ionic polymers and
colloidal particles and to prove a theoretical framework based on the Poisson-Boltzmann …

We studied the phase behavior of charged and sterically stabilized colloids using confocal
microscopy in a low polarity solvent (dielectric constant 5.4). Upon increasing the colloid …

Using a carefully justified development of Debye–Hückel theory for highly asymmetric
electrolytes, one finds that a region of expanded phase instability, or miscibility gap, can …

One of the most remarkable phenomena in nature is the collective organization of atoms and
molecules into crystalline solids. That molecules arrange themselves in this fashion-with …

Aqueous dispersions of charged colloidal silica particles showed a novel one-directional
crystal growth by diffusion of a weak base, pyridine. The colloidal crystal consisted of pillar …

We present measurements of effective charges in de-ionized aqueous suspensions of highly
charged spherical latex colloids. For crystalline ordered samples the shear modulus G was …

Metallic systems are widely used as materials in daily human life. Their properties depend
very much on the production route. In order to improve the production process and even …