How softness matters in soft nanogels and nanogel assemblies

A Scotti, MF Schulte, CG Lopez, JJ Crassous… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Softness plays a key role in determining the macroscopic properties of colloidal systems,
from synthetic nanogels to biological macromolecules, from viruses to star polymers …

The role of local structure in dynamical arrest

CP Royall, SR Williams - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
Amorphous solids, or glasses, are distinguished from crystalline solids by their lack of long-
range structural order. At the level of two-body structural correlations, glassformers show no …

Effective radiative cooling by paint-format microsphere-based photonic random media

S Atiganyanun, JB Plumley, SJ Han, K Hsu… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate that photonic media, when properly randomized to minimize the photon
transport mean free path, can be used to coat a black substrate and reduce its temperature …

Optimally designed multimaterial microparticle–polymer composite paints for passive daytime radiative cooling

J Yun, D Chae, S So, H Lim, J Noh, J Park, N Kim… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Passive daytime radiative cooling (PDRC) devices have enabled subambient cooling of
terrestrial objects without any energy input, offering great potential to future clean energy …

The colloidal nature of complex fluids enhances bacterial motility

S Kamdar, S Shin, P Leishangthem, LF Francis, X Xu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The natural habitats of microorganisms in the human microbiome, ocean and soil
ecosystems are full of colloids and macromolecules. Such environments exhibit non …

The physics of the colloidal glass transition

GL Hunter, ER Weeks - Reports on progress in physics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
As one increases the concentration of a colloidal suspension, the system exhibits a dramatic
increase in viscosity. Beyond a certain concentration, the system is said to be a colloidal …

Colloidal hard spheres: Triumphs, challenges, and mysteries

CP Royall, P Charbonneau, M Dijkstra, J Russo… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - APS
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 …

Two-dimensional melting of colloidal hard spheres

AL Thorneywork, JL Abbott, DGAL Aarts, RPA Dullens - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
We study the melting of quasi-two-dimensional colloidal hard spheres by considering a tilted
monolayer of particles in sedimentation-diffusion equilibrium. In particular, we measure the …

Tunable rheology of dense soft deformable colloids

D Vlassopoulos, M Cloitre - Current opinion in colloid & interface science, 2014 - Elsevier
In the last two decades, advances in synthetic, experimental and modeling/simulation
methodologies have considerably enhanced our understanding of colloidal suspension …

In search of colloidal hard spheres

CP Royall, WCK Poon, ER Weeks - Soft Matter, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
We recently reviewed the experimental determination of the volume fraction, ϕ, of hard-
sphere colloids, and concluded that the absolute value of ϕ was unlikely to be known to …