Research conducted in microgravity conditions has the potential to yield new therapeutics,
as advances can be achieved in the absence of phenomena such as sedimentation …

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 …

Glasses and gels are the two dynamically arrested, disordered states of matter. Despite their
importance, their similarities and differences remain elusive, especially at high density …

Classic binary materials, ranging from polymer blends to table salts, contain equilibrium
phases or crystals of two interacting components. Here, we report on the construction of …

We use large-scale molecular dynamics simulations of a simple glass-forming system to
investigate how its liquid-gas phase separation kinetics depends on temperature. A shallow …

Colloidal gels are out-of-equilibrium structures, made up of a rarefied network of colloidal
particles. Comparing experiments to numerical simulations, with hydrodynamic interactions …

Viscoelastic phase separation of colloidal suspensions can be interrupted to form gels either
by glass transition or by crystallization. With a new confocal microscopy protocol, we follow …

Colloids often crystallize into polymorphic structures, which are only separated by marginal
differences in free energy. Due to this fact, the face-centred cubic and hexagonal close …

The gelation of colloidal particles interacting through a short-range attraction is widely
recognized as a consequence of the dynamic arrest of phase separation into colloid-rich …

Under numerous circumstances, many soft and hard materials are present in a puzzling
wealth of non-equilibrium amorphous states, whose properties are not stationary and …