Assembly and phase transitions of colloidal crystals

B Li, D Zhou, Y Han - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Micrometre-sized colloidal particles can be viewed as large atoms with tailorable size,
shape and interactions. These building blocks can assemble into extremely rich structures …

The polymer/colloid duality of microgel suspensions

LA Lyon, A Fernandez-Nieves - Annual review of physical …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Colloidal dispersions have been studied for decades as a result of their utility in numerous
applications and as models for molecular and atomic condensed phases. More recently, a …

Soft spots and their structural signature in a metallic glass

J Ding, S Patinet, ML Falk… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
In a 3D model mimicking realistic Cu64Zr36 metallic glass, we uncovered a direct link
between the quasi-localized low-frequency vibrational modes and the local atomic packing …

Perspective: Supercooled liquids and glasses

MD Ediger, P Harrowell - The Journal of chemical physics, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Supercooled liquids and glasses are important for current and developing technologies.
Here we provide perspective on recent progress in this field. The interpretation of …

[图书][B] Complex plasmas and colloidal dispersions: particle-resolved studies of classical liquids and solids

A Ivlev, G Morfill, H Lowen, CP Royall - 2012 - books.google.com
Many fundamental issues in classical condensed matter physics can be addressed
experimentally using systems of individually visible mesoscopic particles playing the role of …

Universal origin of boson peak vibrational anomalies in ordered crystals and in amorphous materials

M Baggioli, A Zaccone - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
The vibrational spectra of solids, both ordered and amorphous, in the low-energy regime,
control the thermal and transport properties of materials, from heat capacity to heat …

Physics in ordered and disordered colloidal matter composed of poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) microgel particles

PJ Yunker, K Chen, MD Gratale, MA Lohr… - Reports on Progress …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
This review collects and describes experiments that employ colloidal suspensions to probe
physics in ordered and disordered solids and related complex fluids. The unifying feature of …

Local inversion-symmetry breaking controls the boson peak in glasses and crystals

R Milkus, A Zaccone - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
It is well known that amorphous solids display a phonon spectrum where the Debye∼ ω 2
law at low frequency melds into an anomalous excess-mode peak (the boson peak) before …

Colloidal hard spheres: Triumphs, challenges and mysteries

CP Royall, P Charbonneau, M Dijkstra, J Russo… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
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 …

Triblock colloids for directed self-assembly

Q Chen, E Diesel, JK Whitmer, SC Bae… - Journal of the …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Methods for functionalizing micrometer-sized colloidal spheres with three or more zones of
chemical functionality (ABA or ABC) are described. To produce ABA triblock colloids, we …