Softness plays a key role in determining the macroscopic properties of colloidal systems,
from synthetic nanogels to biological macromolecules, from viruses to star polymers …

X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) enables the study of sample dynamics
between micrometer and atomic length scales. As a coherent scattering technique, it …

Soft colloids enable the exploration of states with densities exceeding that of random close
packing, but it remains unclear whether softness controls the dynamics under these dense …

We probe the microstructural yielding dynamics of a concentrated colloidal system by
performing creep/recovery tests with simultaneous collection of coherent scattering data via …

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 …

Super-resolution microscopy has become a powerful tool to investigate the internal structure
of complex colloidal and polymeric systems, such as microgels, at the nanometer scale. An …

We study experimentally the response of a dense sediment of Brownian particles to self-
propulsion. We observe that the ergodic supercooled liquid relaxation is monotonically …

Fragility is an empirical property that describes how abruptly a glass-forming material
solidifies upon supercooling. The degree of fragility carries important implications for the …

Poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)-based microgels are soft colloids undergoing a volume phase
transition (VPT) close to ambient temperature. Although widely employed for fundamental …

Glass is inherently unstable to crystallization. However, how this transformation occurs while
the dynamics in the glass stay frozen at the particle scale is poorly understood. Here …