It is widely appreciated that surface tension can dominate the behavior of liquids at small
scales. Solids also have surface stresses of a similar magnitude, but they are usually …

Although negligible at large scales, capillary forces may become dominant for submillimetric
objects. Surface tension is usually associated with the spherical shape of small droplets and …

Conspectus The confinement of colloidal particles at liquid interfaces offers many
opportunities for materials design. Adsorption is driven by a reduction of the total free energy …

This review discusses the current knowledge of interfacial and bulk interactions of
biopolymeric microgels in relation to the well-established properties of synthetic microgels …

The two-dimensional self-assembly of colloidal particles serves as a model system for
fundamental studies of structure formation and as a powerful tool to fabricate functional …

Soft particles display highly versatile properties with respect to hard colloids and even more
so at fluid–fluid interfaces. In particular, microgels, consisting of a cross-linked polymer …

We investigate the influence of a solid core and of the cross-link density on the compression
of microgel particles at oil–water interfaces by means of compression isotherms and …

We investigate soft, temperature-sensitive microgels at fluid interfaces. Though having an
isotropic, spherical shape in bulk solution, the microgels become anisotropic upon …

The volume phase transition of microgels is one of the most paradigmatic examples of
stimuli-responsiveness, enabling a collapse from a highly swollen microgel state into a …

The reconfiguration of individual soft and deformable particles upon adsorption at a fluid
interface underpins many aspects of their dynamics and interactions, ultimately regulating …