A comprehensive review is presented of the physical behavior of yield stress materials in
soft condensed matter, which encompasses a broad range of materials from colloidal …

We attempt a classification of different colloidal gels based on colloid–colloid interactions.
We discriminate primarily between non-equilibrium and equilibrium routes to gelation, the …

Recently, an increasing experimental effort has been devoted to the synthesis of complex
colloidal particles with chemically or physically patterned surfaces and possible specific …

Advanced synchrotron radiation focusing down to a size of 300 nm has been used to
visualize nanoscale phase separation in the K 0.8 Fe 1.6 Se 2 superconducting system …

We investigate the competition between spinodal decomposition and dynamical arrest using
aqueous solutions of the globular protein lysozyme as a model system for colloids with short …

We use numerical simulations and an athermal quasistatic shear protocol to investigate the
yielding of a model colloidal gel. Under increasing deformation, the elastic regime is …

Coarsening and kinetic arrest of colloidal systems undergoing spinodal decomposition (SD)
is a conserved motif for forming hierarchical, bicontinuous structures. Although the …

Equilibrium self-assembly relies on the relaxation of disordered mixtures of building blocks
towards an ordered ground state. The main drawback of this traditional approach lies in the …

We present further evidence that gelation is an arrested phase separation in attractive
colloid–polymer mixtures, based on a method combining confocal microscopy experiments …

Glasses and gels are the two dynamically arrested, disordered states of matter. Despite their
importance, their similarities and differences remain elusive, especially at high density …