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 …

Looking at globular proteins with the eyes of a colloid scientist has a long tradition, in fact a
significant part of the early colloid literature was focused on protein solutions. However, it …

Packing problems have been a source of fascination for millennia and their study has
produced a rich literature that spans numerous disciplines. Investigations of hard-particle …

Despite the omnipresence of colloidal suspensions, little is known about the influence of
colloid shape on phase transformations, especially in nonequilibrium. To date, real-space …

We report the phase diagram of two-dimensional hard ellipses as obtained from replica
exchange Monte Carlo simulations. The replica exchange is implemented by expanding the …

Numerous recent investigations have been devoted to the determination of the equilibrium
phase behavior and packing characteristics of hard nonspherical particles, including …

By mostly using Monte Carlo numerical simulation, this work investigates the densest-known
packings and phase behavior of hard spherical capsids, ie, hard infinitesimally thin spherical …

Densest possible packings of identical spheroids in cylindrical confinement have been
obtained through Monte Carlo simulations. By varying the shape anisotropy of spheroids …

Suspensions of hard ellipsoidal particles exhibit complex phase behavior as shown by
theoretical predictions and simulations of phase diagrams. Here, we report quantitative …

The effect of out-of-plane positional freedom is examined on the stability of two-dimensional
(2D) nematic order of hard non-spherical particles using the second virial density-functional …