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

Liquid mixtures composed of colloidal particles and much smaller non-adsorbing linear
homopolymers can undergo a gelation transition due to polymer-mediated depletion forces …

Whereas mixtures of colloids and nonadsorbing polymers have been studied in great detail
in the last two decades, binary colloidal mixtures have not received much attention. Yet …

Upon addition of small nonadsorbing linear polymers, colloidal glasses composed of large
hard spheres melt and eventually revitrify into the so-called attractive glass regime. We show …

We report on the linear viscoelastic properties of mixtures comprising multiarm star (as
model soft colloids) and long linear chain homopolymers in a good solvent. In contrast to …

Despite their wide range of applications, there is a remarkable lack of fundamental
understanding about how micelles respond to other components in solution. The colloidal …

For physically gelled colloidal suspensions, there are two routes to transform the gel from
solid to liquid. One is to raise the temperature, and the other is to increase the shear …

Despite their wide range of applications, there is a remarkable lack of fundamental
understanding about how micelles respond to other components in solution. The colloidal …

The goal of this Ph. D project is to explore the role of different control parameters on the
structural and dynamic properties of soft colloidal systems. They include particle shape and …