This review describes recent developments in the field of liquid–crystalline suspensions of
mineral nanoparticles. New families of chemical compounds have been investigated in the …

Recent work on mineral reactions and microstructures in metamorphic rocks has focused on
forward modelling of phase equilibria and on their description through chemical potential …

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 …

The liquid crystal phase behavior of a suspension of charged gibbsite [Al (OH) 3] platelets is
investigated. By variation of the ionic strength, we are able to tune the effective thickness-to …

Colloidal dispersions are natural candidates to produce materials structured at the
nanometer scale because of their propensity to self-organize into colloidal (liquid) crystals …

Gravity can affect colloidal suspensions since for micrometer-sized particles gravitational
and thermal energies can be comparable over vertical length scales of a few millimeters. In …

A novel model system for studying the behavior of hard colloidal rods is presented,
consisting of sterically stabilized particles of natural sepiolite clay. Electron microscopy and …

We investigate the effects of variable linear charge density and Debye length on the
mesoscopic properties of β-lactoglobulin fibers in water, by changing the pH and ionic …

A geometry-based density-functional theory is presented for mixtures of hard spheres, hard
needles, and hard platelets; both the needles and platelets are taken to be of vanishing …

The ability of Laponite to stabilize aqueous suspensions of multiwalled carbon nanotubes
(MWCNTs) was investigated with the help of analytical centrifugation, microscopic image …