This topical review discusses the theoretical progress made in the field of polymer
nanocomposites, ie, hybrid materials created by mixing (typically inorganic) nanoparticles …

In the last two decades, advances in synthetic, experimental and modeling/simulation
methodologies have considerably enhanced our understanding of colloidal suspension …

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 …

Nanoscale or colloidal particles are important in many realms of science and technology.
They can dramatically change the properties of materials, imparting solid-like behaviour to a …

The structure of the interphase, a region between nanoparticle fillers and the bulk polymer
matrix in a particle reinforced composite, was investigated using two different approaches …

Polymer nanocomposites are a class of materials that consist of a polymer matrix filled with
inorganic/organic nanoscale additives that enhance the inherent macroscopic (mechanical …

Phase separation can be induced in a colloidal dispersion by adding non-adsorbing
polymers. Depletion of polymer around the colloidal particles induces an effective attraction …

The use of an effective intermolecular potential often involves a compromise between more
accurate, complex functional forms and more tractable simple representations. To study this …

Mode coupling theory (MCT) is used to model gel formation in mixtures of colloidal particles
and nonadsorbing polymer. The polymer induces an effective, short-range attraction among …

In many colloidal suspensions, the micrometer-sized particles behave like hard spheres, but
when non-adsorbing polymers are added to the solution a depletion attraction (of entropic …