Colloidal Soft Matter Physics

OCT VELOCIMETRY OF COLLOIDAL SUSPENSIONS SOFT MATTER Optical Coherence Tomography Velocimetry of Colloidal Suspensions

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Critical Soft Matter Boulder Summer School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics: Soft Matter In and Out of Equilibrium 2015

Brownian motion: a paradigm of soft matter and biological physics

This is a pedagogical introduction to Brownian motion on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s 1905 paper on the subject. After briefly reviewing Einstein’s work in its contemporary context, we pursue some lines of further developments and applications in soft condensed matter and biology. Over the last century Brownian motion became promoted from an odd curiosity of marginal scie...

Filamentous Phages As a Model System in Soft Matter Physics

Filamentous phages have unique physical properties, such as uniform particle lengths, that are not found in other model systems of rod-like colloidal particles. Consequently, suspensions of such phages provided powerful model systems that have advanced our understanding of soft matter physics in general and liquid crystals in particular. We described some of these advances. In particular we bri...

University of Konstanz SOFT CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS Annual Report 1998

Cover (from top): counterion density between two colloidal particles (p. 19); spinodal decomposition in a binary polymer film (p. 6); physical mechanism of long-range optical speckle correlations (p. 37); light-induced colloidal crystal (p. 27); eutectic crystal of magnetic colloids (p. 29).