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 swelling of thermoresponsive microgels is widely modelled through Flory–Rehner
theory, which combines Flory–Huggins solution thermodynamics with the affine network …

Colloids are suspensions of small solid particles in a liquid and exhibit glassy behavior
when the particle concentration is high. In these samples, the particles are roughly …

The deformability of red blood cells is an essential parameter that controls the rheology of
blood as well as its circulation in the body. Characterizing the rigidity of the cells and their …

Colloidal and molecular systems share similar behaviors near to the glass transition volume
fraction or temperature. Here, aging behaviors after volume fraction up-jump (induced by …

Thermoresponsive polymeric gels are a class of smart materials with the ability to absorb or
release large amounts of solvent when changes in their environment occur. Scaling theories …

We present experimental measurements of dynamical heterogeneities in a dense system of
microgel spheres, sheared at different rates and at different packing fractions in a …

Glasses behave as solids due to their long relaxation time; however the origin of this slow
response remains a puzzle. Growing dynamic length scales due to cooperative motion of …

We investigate the aging dynamics of amorphous SiO 2 via molecular dynamics simulations
of a quench from a high temperature T i to a lower temperature T f. We obtain a microscopic …

In a dense colloidal suspension at a volume fraction below the glass transition, we follow the
trajectories of an assembly of tracers over a large time window. We define a local activity …