Flow-induced structure in colloidal suspensions

J Vermant, MJ Solomon - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the sequences of structural states that can be induced in colloidal suspensions
by the application of flow. Structure formation during flow is strongly affected by the delicate …

Glassy colloidal systems

F Sciortino, P Tartaglia - Advances in Physics, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
This review focuses on recent developments in the theoretical, numerical and experimental
study of slow dynamics in colloidal systems, with a particular emphasis on the glass …

Theory of phase separation in polymer nanocomposites

JB Hooper, KS Schweizer - Macromolecules, 2006 - ACS Publications
The microscopic polymer reference interaction site model theory of polymer nanocomposites
composed of flexible chains and spherical nanoparticles has been employed to study …

Nonlinear rheology of colloidal gels with intermediate volume fraction

M Laurati, SU Egelhaaf, G Petekidis - Journal of Rheology, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
The depletion attraction, induced upon addition of a nonadsorbing polymer to a colloidal
solution, can lead to gel formation at sufficiently high polymer concentrations, which …

Real space analysis of colloidal gels: Triumphs, challenges and future directions

CP Royall, MA Faers, SL Fussell… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Colloidal gels constitute an important class of materials found in many contexts and with a
wide range of applications. Yet as matter far from equilibrium, gels exhibit a variety of time …

Structure and dynamics of colloidal depletion gels: Coincidence of transitions and heterogeneity

CJ Dibble, M Kogan, MJ Solomon - … Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2006 - APS
Transitions in structural heterogeneity of colloidal depletion gels formed through short-range
attractive interactions are correlated with their dynamical arrest. The system is a density and …

[HTML][HTML] The Asakura–Oosawa theory: Entropic forces in physics, biology, and soft matter

K Miyazaki, KS Schweizer, D Thirumalai… - The Journal of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
In 1954, Asakura and Oosawa 1 explained that nonadsorbing macromolecules can induce
attractive forces between colloidal particles in a single page paper in this journal. The …

Structure, dynamics, and rheology of colloid-polymer mixtures: From liquids to gels

M Laurati, G Petekidis, N Koumakis… - The Journal of …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the structural, dynamical, and viscoelastic properties of colloid-polymer
mixtures at intermediate colloid volume fraction and varying polymer concentrations, thereby …

Scaling of dynamics with the range of interaction in short-range attractive colloids

G Foffi, CD Michele, F Sciortino, P Tartaglia - Physical review letters, 2005 - APS
We numerically study the dependence of the dynamics on the range of interaction Δ for the
short-range square well potential. We find that, for small Δ, dynamics scale exactly in the …

Model for reversible colloidal gelation

E Zaccarelli, SV Buldyrev, E La Nave, AJ Moreno… - Physical review …, 2005 - APS
We report a numerical study, covering a wide range of packing fraction ϕ and temperature T,
for a system of particles interacting via a square well potential supplemented by an …