The simplicity of hard spheres as a model system is deceptive. Although the particles
interact solely through volume exclusion, that nevertheless suffices for a wealth of static and …

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 …

Particle tracking is a powerful biophysical tool that requires conversion of large video files
into position time series, ie, traces of the species of interest for data analysis. Current …

Understanding the interactions between small, submicrometer-sized colloidal particles is
crucial for numerous scientific disciplines and technological applications. In this study, we …

Amorphous solids have peculiar properties distinct from crystals. One of the most
fundamental mysteries is the emergence of solidity in such nonequilibrium, disordered state …

Advances in both top-down and bottom-up syntheses of a wide variety of complex colloidal
building blocks and also in methods of controlling their assembly in solution have led to new …

The brain's complex microconnectivity underlies its computational abilities and vulnerability
to injury and disease. It has been challenging to illuminate the features of this synaptic …

I present a semiclassical analysis of a spatial-mode demultiplexing (SPADE) measurement
scheme for far-field incoherent optical imaging under the effects of diffraction and photon …

The systematic variation of diameters in branched networks has tantalized biologists since
the discovery of da Vinci's rule for trees. Da Vinci's rule can be formulated as a power law …

Atomic-resolution electron microscopy imaging of solid-state material is a powerful method
for structural analysis. Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) is one of the …