Rideal lecture. Universal features of the fluid to solid transition for attractive colloidal particles.

Universal Features of the Fluid to Solid Transition for Attractive Colloidal Particles

Effect of colloidal Particles associated with the liquid bridge in sticking during drying in Superheated Steam

It is very important in the design of a drying system is to evaluate sticking behaviour of the materials goes under drying. A new approach to the sticking issue is applied in this study by carrying out a sticking test for the liquid associated with the materials under study. It was found that the liquid bridge is responsible of the initial sticking of the materials to the contact surface and th...

Effect of the range of attractive interactions on crystallization, metastable phase transition, and percolation in colloidal dispersions.

The equilibrium as well as nonequilibrium phase behaviors of colloidal dispersions have been investigated using statistical-mechanical theories of fluids and solids in complement with the renormalization-group (RG) theory. It is shown that the osmotic second virial coefficient at the critical point of the fluid-fluid transition varies with the range of attractions and is sensitive to specific f...

Dynamics of weakly aggregated colloidal particles.

We discuss the behaviour of the dynamics of colloidal particles with a weak attractive interparticle interaction that is induced through the addition of polymer to the solvent. We briefly review the description of their behaviour in terms of the jamming phase diagram, which parametrized the fluid-to-solid transition due to changes in volume fraction, attractive energy or applied stress. We focu...

Scaling of the viscoelasticity of weakly attractive particles

The rheological data of weakly attractive colloidal particles are shown to exhibit a surprising scaling behavior as the particle volume fraction, straight phi, or the strength of the attractive interparticle interaction, U, are varied. There is a critical onset of a solid network as either straight phi or U increase above critical values. For all solidlike samples, both the frequency-dependent ...