The simplicity of hard spheres as a model system is deceptive. Although the particles
interact solely through volume exclusion, that nevertheless suffices for a wealth of static and …

The crystallization of materials from a suspension determines the structure and function of
the final product, and numerous pieces of evidence have pointed out that the classical …

Hard-sphere crystallization has been widely investigated over the last six decades by means
of colloidal suspensions and numerical methods. However, some aspects of its nucleation …

Colloidal suspensions of two species have the ability to form binary crystals under certain
conditions. The hunt for these functional materials and the countless investigations on their …

Over the past two decades, a large number of studies addressed the topic of crystal
nucleation in suspensions of hard spheres. The shared result of all these efforts is that, at …

The flow-driven transport of interacting micron-sized particles occurs in many soft matter
systems spanning from the translocation of proteins to moving emulsions in microfluidic …

Computer simulations of the fluid-to-solid phase transition in the hard sphere system were
instrumental for our understanding of crystallization processes. But while colloid …

Neural network potentials (NNPs) are increasingly being used to study processes that
happen on long time scales. A typical example is crystal nucleation, which rate is controlled …

We investigate the effect of hydrodynamic interactions (HIs) on the crystal nucleation of hard-
sphere colloids for varying supersaturations. We use molecular dynamics and stochastic …

Phase separation, a fundamental phenomenon in both natural and industrial settings,
involves the coarsening of domains over time t to reduce interfacial energy. While well …