image: Researchers from the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, discover how certain colloids can form a solid-like gel and reveal how the mechanism differs from glasses. view ...

Scientists find unusual behaviors in colloidal crystals. Atoms have a positively charged center surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged particles. This type of arrangement, it turns out, can also ...

Investigations of solid/liquid interface stability have direct implications and practical applications in fields as diverse as metallurgy and materials science 1,2, crystal growth 3, cryopreservation ...

(Nanowerk News) For the first time ever, researchers have succeeded in creating arrangements of colloids – tiny particles suspended in a solution – and, importantly, they have managed to control their ...

Colloids are mixtures containing solids in liquid or liquid in liquid and all of these contain distinct solid (and/or liquid) particles which are dispersed to various degrees in a liquid medium. The ...

Colloidal suspensions heterogenous mixtures of particles with diameters of about 2-500 nanometers, which are permanently suspended in a second phase, usually a liquid. Owing to the small particle size ...

(Nanowerk News) The soft, solid-like properties of colloidal gels are essential in fields such as food and medical applications, but how these properties manifest themselves is a long-standing mystery ...

Scientists tethered smaller particles in colloidal crystals to larger ones using DNA, allowing them to determine how the smaller particles filled in the regions surrounding the larger ones. Scientists ...