Micro particles come in a wide variety of architectural designs and shapes. It is time to look
beyond the conventional spherical morphology and focus on anisotropic systems. Rod …

We perform optical-tweezers experiments and mesoscale fluid simulations to study the
effective interactions between two parallel plates immersed in bacterial suspensions. The …

We observed a two-step glass transition in monolayers of colloidal ellipsoids by video
microscopy. The glass transition in the rotational degree of freedom was at a lower density …

The formation of complexly structured and shaped supraparticles can be achieved by
evaporation-induced self-assembly (EISA) starting from colloidal dispersions deposited on a …

When a liquid is supercooled towards the glass transition, its dynamics drastically slows
down, whereas its static structure remains relatively unchanged. Finding a structural …

A hallmark of bacteria is their so-called “run-and-tumble” motion and its variants, consisting
of a sequence of linear directed “runs” and distinct rotation events that constantly alternate …

Anisotropic dynamics on the colloidal length scale is ubiquitous in nature. Of particular
interest is the dynamics of systems approaching a kinetically arrested state. The failure of …

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 …

We report the first direct, non-invasive experimental evidence of a 2D isotropic–nematic
transition for highly anisotropic nanoparticles at liquid–liquid interfaces by using passive …

The hydrodynamic interactions (HIs) of two colloidal spheres characterized by the translation–
translation (T–T) couplings have been studied under various confinements, but little is …