The physics of the colloidal glass transition

GL Hunter, ER Weeks - Reports on progress in physics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
As one increases the concentration of a colloidal suspension, the system exhibits a dramatic
increase in viscosity. Beyond a certain concentration, the system is said to be a colloidal …

Roles of icosahedral and crystal-like order in the hard spheres glass transition

M Leocmach, H Tanaka - Nature communications, 2012 - nature.com
A link between structural ordering and slow dynamics has recently attracted much attention
from the context of the origin of glassy slow dynamics. Candidates for such structural order …

[HTML][HTML] Differential dynamic microscopy: a high-throughput method for characterizing the motility of microorganisms

VA Martinez, R Besseling, OA Croze, J Tailleur… - Biophysical journal, 2012 - cell.com
We present a fast, high-throughput method for characterizing the motility of microorganisms
in three dimensions based on standard imaging microscopy. Instead of tracking individual …

Decoupling of rotational and translational diffusion in supercooled colloidal fluids

KV Edmond, MT Elsesser, GL Hunter, DJ Pine… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - pnas.org
We use confocal microscopy to directly observe 3D translational and rotational diffusion of
tetrahedral clusters, which serve as tracers in colloidal supercooled fluids. We find that as …

Dynamics and rheology of colloidal star polymers

BM Erwin, M Cloitre, M Gauthier, D Vlassopoulos - Soft Matter, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
We attempt to elucidate the dynamics of multiarm star polymer solutions, which are
representative of a large class of soft hairy colloids, over a wide range of concentrations. In …

Yield stress and shear banding in granular suspensions

A Fall, F Bertrand, G Ovarlez, D Bonn - Physical review letters, 2009 - APS
We study the emergence of a yield stress in dense suspensions of non-Brownian particles
by combining local velocity and concentration measurements using magnetic resonance …

Divergence in the low shear viscosity for Brownian hard-sphere dispersions: At random close packing or the glass transition?

WB Russel, NJ Wagner, J Mewis - Journal of Rheology, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Models, theories, and simulations for the low shear viscosity of Brownian, hard-sphere
dispersions are examined and evaluated against literature data. Hydrodynamic and …

Spatial and temporal dynamical heterogeneities approaching the binary colloidal glass transition

T Narumi, SV Franklin, KW Desmond, M Tokuyama… - Soft Matter, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
We study concentrated binary colloidal suspensions, a model system which has a glass
transition as the volume fraction ϕ of particles is increased. We use confocal microscopy to …

On the ergodicity of supercooled molecular glass-forming liquids at the dynamical arrest: the o-terphenyl case

F Mallamace, C Corsaro, N Leone, V Villari, N Micali… - Scientific Reports, 2014 - nature.com
The dynamics of supercooled ortho-terphenyl has been studied using photon-correlation
spectroscopy (PCS) in the depolarized scattering geometry. The obtained relaxation curves …

Roles of bond orientational ordering in glass transition and crystallization

H Tanaka - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
It is widely believed that crystallization in three dimensions is primarily controlled by
positional ordering, and not by bond orientational ordering. In other words, bond …