This article reviews the physics of colloidal dispersions in nematic liquid crystals as a novel
challenging type of soft matter. We first investigate the nematic environment of one particle …

Recently, there has been much progress in the self-assembly of colloidal crystals. Major
advances include the growth of colloidal crystals on lithographically templated substrates …

Giant vesicles are widely used as a model membrane system, both for basic biological
systems and for their promising applications in the development of smart materials and cell …

Solutions of different polymers in the same solvent are incompatible as a rule and show
phase separation when they are mixed. H incompatibility is also to be observed in systems …

We study the phase behavior and structure of highly asymmetric binary hard-sphere
mixtures. By first integrating out the degrees of freedom of the small spheres in the partition …

There has been much confusion recently about the relative merits of different approaches,
osmotic stress, preferential interaction, and crowding, to describe the indirect effect of …

When a colloidal particle adheres to a fluid membrane, it induces elastic deformations in the
membrane which oppose its own binding. The structural and energetic aspects of this …

Flexible membranes which are in contact with dispersed nanoparticles or colloids are
theoretically studied. For closed vesicles, the membrane/particle interactions change the" …

We present a versatile density functional approach (DFT) for calculating the depletion
potential in general fluid mixtures. For the standard situation of a single big particle …

Membrane vesicles composed of fatty acids can be made to grow and divide under
laboratory conditions, and thus provide a model system relevant to the emergence of cellular …