BACKGROUND Colloids consist of solid or liquid particles, each about a few hundred
nanometers in size, dispersed in a fluid and kept suspended by thermal fluctuations …

Colloidal model systems allow studying crystallization kinetics under fairly ideal conditions,
with rather well-characterized pair interactions and minimized external influences. In …

The mechanism by which a liquid may become arrested, forming a glass or gel, is a long-
standing problem of materials science. In particular, long-lived (energetically) locally …

Molecular-dynamics simulations of the mechanical properties of three different three-
dimensional metallic glass analogs reveal that each exhibits a transition from homogeneous …

We study the structure of numerically simulated hard sphere packings at different densities
by investigating local tetrahedral configurations of the spheres. Clusters of tetrahedra …

The crystallization kinetics of colloidal hard spheres was studied using a special Bragg
spectrometer with high sensitivity. In contrast with the classical scenario we observe a two …

Structure–property relationships form the basis of many design rules in materials science,
including synthesizability and long-term stability of catalysts, control of electrical and …

We calculate the ground states of hard-sphere clusters, in which n identical hard spherical
particles bind by isotropic short-ranged attraction. Combining graph theoretic enumeration …

Over the last decade, the light microscope has become increasingly useful as a quantitative
tool for studying colloidal systems. The ability to obtain particle coordinates in bulk samples …

The self-assembly of two sizes of spherical nanocrystals has revealed a surprisingly diverse
library of structures. To date, at least 15 distinct binary nanocrystal superlattice (BNSL) …