Can the laws of physics be unified? One of the most puzzling challenges is to reconcile
physics and chemistry, where molecular physics meets condensed-matter physics, resulting …

Understanding the way disordered particle packings transition between jammed (rigid) and
unjammed (fluid) states is of both great practical importance and strong fundamental …

Crush curves are of fundamental importance to numerical modeling of small and porous
astrophysical bodies. The empirical literature often measures them for silica grains, and …

We study the rheology of bidisperse non-Brownian suspensions using particle-based
simulation, map** the viscosity as a function of the size ratio of the species, their relative …

In this paper, the random packing fraction of hard disks in a plane is analyzed, following a
geometric probabilistic approach. First, the random close packing (RCP) of equally sized …

The dynamics and time scales of higher-order correlations are studied in supercooled
colloidal systems. A combination of X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) and X-ray …

Photosynthesis is vital for the survival of entire ecosystems on Earth. While light is
fundamental to this process, excessive exposure can be detrimental to plant cells …

Colloidal and nanoparticle self-assembly enables the creation of ordered structures with a
variety of electronic and photonic functionalities. The outcomes of the self-assembly …

In many colloidal suspensions, the dispersed colloidal particles are amorphous solids,
resulting from vitrification. A crucial open problem is understanding how colloidal stability is …

Dense packing of particles has provided powerful models to elaborate the important
structural features of matter in various systems such as liquid, glassy, and crystalline phases …