Soft and responsive colloids based on polymer hydrogels have moved into the focus of the
colloid community. This review gives a brief overview of the recent literature on the structure …

Customarily, crystalline solids are defined to be rigid since they resist changes of shape
determined by their boundaries. However, rigid solids cannot exist in the thermodynamic …

Experiments and simulations show that when an initially defect-free rigid crystal is subjected
to deformation at a constant rate, irreversible plastic flow commences at the so-called yield …

In complex crystals close to melting or at finite temperatures, different types of defects are
ubiquitous and their role becomes relevant in the mechanical response of these solids …

We report confocal microscopy experiments of electric-field-driven crystal-crystal
transformations in microgel colloids with varying particle softness. The transformation …

We generalize and then use a recently introduced formalism to study thermal fluctuations of
atomic displacements in several two-and three-dimensional crystals. We study both close …

Displacive transformations in colloidal crystals may offer a pathway for increasing the
diversity of accessible configurations without the need to engineer particle shape or …

Identifying subtle conformational fluctuations underlying the dynamics of biomacromolecules
is crucial for resolving their free energy landscape. We show that a collective variable …

Continuum modeling of finite temperature mechanical behavior of atomic systems requires
refined description of atomic motions. In this paper, we identify additional kinematical …

We show that dynamic, feed-back controlled optical traps, whose positions depend on the
instantaneous local configuration of particles in a pre-determined way, can stabilise colloidal …