Active colloids on fluid interfaces

J Deng, M Molaei, NG Chisholm, T Yao, A Read… - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
We review recent work on active colloids at interfaces, including self-propelled colloids that
move by generating a propulsive force, and driven colloids that move under external fields …

Interfacial viscoelasticity and jamming of colloidal particles at fluid–fluid interfaces: a review

X Ji, X Wang, Y Zhang, D Zang - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Colloidal particles can be adsorbed at fluid–fluid interfaces, a phenomenon frequently
observed in particle-stabilized foams, Pickering emulsions, and bijels. Particles adsorbed at …

Direct measurements of the colloidal Debye force

HM Lee, YW Kim, EM Go, C Revadekar… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Colloids often behave in a manner similar to their counterparts in molecular space and are
used as model systems to understand molecular behavior. Here, we study like-charged …

Surface tension anomaly observed for chemically-modified Janus particles at the air/water interface

S Razavi, LM Hernandez, A Read, WL Vargas… - Journal of colloid and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The behavior of Janus particles fabricated from core silica particles decorated with gold
nanoparticles on one hemisphere is studied at the air/water interface. An unexpected …

Brownian diffusion of individual janus nanoparticles at water/oil interfaces

D Wang, YL Zhu, Y Zhao, CY Li, A Mukhopadhyay… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Janus nanoparticles could exhibit a higher interfacial activity and adsorb stronger to fluid
interfaces than homogeneous nanoparticles of similar sizes. However, little is known about …

Impact of surface amphiphilicity on the interfacial behavior of Janus particle layers under compression

S Razavi, B Lin, KYC Lee, RS Tu, I Kretzschmar - Langmuir, 2019 - ACS Publications
Langmuir monolayers of silica/gold Janus particles with two different degrees of
amphiphilicity have been examined to study the significance of particle surface …

On the Interfacial Assembly of Anisotropic Amphiphilic Janus Particles

A McGlasson, E Morgenthaler… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
It has been shown both theoretically and experimentally that amphiphilic Janus particles are
the most effective solid surfactants to stabilize interfaces. In most cases, the Janus particles …

3-D rotation tracking from 2-D images of spherical colloids with textured surfaces

V Niggel, MR Bailey, C van Baalen, N Zosso, L Isa - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Tracking the three-dimensional rotation of colloidal particles is essential to elucidate many
open questions, eg concerning the contact interactions between particles under flow, or the …

Motion of micro-and nano-particles interacting with a fluid interface

S Villa, G Boniello, A Stocco, M Nobili - Advances in Colloid and Interface …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this article, we review both theoretical models and experimental results on the motion of
micro-and nano-particles that are close to a fluid interface or move in between two fluids …

Effects of shape on interaction dynamics of tetrahedral nanoplastics and the cell membrane

X Yong, K Du - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cellular uptake of nanoplastics is instrumental in their environmental accumulation and
transfer to humans through the food chain. Despite extensive studies using spherical plastic …