Nanogels and microgels are soft, deformable, and penetrable objects with an internal gel-
like structure that is swollen by the dispersing solvent. Their softness and the potential to …

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 …

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 …

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 …

In the last two decades, advances in synthetic, experimental and modeling/simulation
methodologies have considerably enhanced our understanding of colloidal suspension …

Patchy particles are a popular paradigm for the design and synthesis of nanoparticles and
colloids for self-assembly. In “traditional” patchy particles, anisotropic interactions arising …

Dynamic particle-scale numerical simulations are used to show that the shear thickening
observed in dense colloidal, or Brownian, suspensions is of a similar nature to that observed …

Colloidal model systems allow studying crystallization kinetics under fairly ideal conditions,
with rather well-characterized pair interactions and minimized external influences. In …

Microgels are solvent-swollen nano-and microparticles that show prevalent colloidal-like
behavior despite their polymeric nature. Here we study ultra-low crosslinked poly (N …

A transition from a square to a hexagonal lattice is studied in a 2D system of particles
interacting via a core-softened potential. Due to the presence of two length scales of …