Colloidal microcontainers, such as hollow capsules and colloidosomes, have a range of applications, including drug delivery, energy storage, artificial protocells. In this study, we present versatile scalable self-assembly approach for encapsulating cargo particles within well-defined porous membranes or cages. The encapsulation process involves camouflaging liquid matrix that serves scaffold s...

using of colloids and polymeric microparticles are gradually increasing. it is observed that thepositive effects of particles stems in both traditional applications such as column pickings,coatings and paints to more recent technologies in diagnostics, drug delivery and optical devicesare well documented. this review focuses on importance of colloids and covers theirapplications on three level:...

We report the physico-chemical characterisation of fatty acid stabilised aqueous magnetic fluids, which are ideal systems for studying the influence of nanoparticle aggregation on the emergent magnetic resonance properties of the suspensions. Stable colloids of superparamagnetic magnetite, Fe(3)O(4), nanoparticle clusters in the 80 to 100 nm size range were produced by in situ nanoparticle grow...

Light-sheet microscopy enables fast 3D, high-contrast imaging in biology and colloidal sciences. Recently, the controlled transport of living embryos or small colloids through stable glass capillaries is manifold interesting. Although they hardly impair the sample, glass capillaries spoil the image by generating significant aberrations of the illumination and detection light. Here, we analyze t...

We have investigated two polymeric materials for incorporating high-Z metallic elements into ablation layers. Although each method ut~lizes solution-coating techniques, the materials and the resulting structures are basically different. The first, sulfonated polystyrene, which has a metal content of up to 5 atomic percent, is easily prepared and can easily be coated from solution. The second ma...

Solutions of microgels have been widely used as model systems to gain insight into atomic condensed matter and complex fluids. We explore the thermodynamic phase behavior hollow microgels, which are distinguished from conventional colloids by possessing a central cavity. Small-angle neutron X-ray scattering probe in crowded environments. These measurements reveal an interplay between interpenet...

We study the structural and dynamical properties of paramagnetic colloidal spheres interacting as repulsive dipoles in two dimensions and confined between parallel hard walls. We observed that the structure and dynamics of the self-assembled colloids are strongly dependent upon the width of the confining channel. The system exhibits re-entrant behavior as a function of the channel width, transi...

We study a polydisperse soft-spheres model for colloids by means of microcanonical Monte Carlo simulations. We consider a polydispersity as high as 24%. Although solidification occurs, neither a crystal nor an amorphous state are thermodynamically stable. A finite size scaling analysis reveals that in the thermodynamic limit: (a) the fluid-solid transition is rather a crystal-amorphous phase-se...

We have developed a simple method for the preparation of nearly mono-dispersed stable gold colloids with a fairly high concentration using a two step procedure. First we synthesize citrate capped gold nanoparticles and then exchange the citrate ions with triethyleneglycolmono-11-mercaptoundecylether (EGMUDE). This leads to the immediate precipitation and formation of composite assemblies. The g...