Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stable nanoscale particlelike objects that were
discovered in 2009. Since that time, intense research interest in the field has led to the …

This article reviews the physics of colloidal dispersions in nematic liquid crystals as a novel
challenging type of soft matter. We first investigate the nematic environment of one particle …

Optical micromanipulation has engendered some major studies across all of the natural
sciences at the mesoscopic scale. Though over thirty-five years old, the field is finding new …

We describe measurements of colloidal transport through arrays of micrometer-scale
potential wells created with holographic optical tweezers. Varying the orientation of the trap …

Despite progress in the understanding of crystal nucleation and crystal growth since the first
theories for nucleation were developed, an exact quantitative prediction of the nucleation …

The physics of soft-matter systems controlled by external fields is reviewed and previewed.
Particular emphasis is placed on statistical properties of well-characterized colloidal …

We investigate the self-assembly of colloidal spheres on periodically patterned templates.
The surface potentials and the surface phases are induced entropically by the presence of …

This article gives an overview of recent progress in template-directed colloidal self-
assembly. We first highlight colloidal crystallization and clustering guided by using …

We consider a single Brownian particle in a spatially symmetric, periodic system far from
thermal equilibrium. This setup can be readily realized experimentally. Upon application of …

We studied the structural, dynamical properties and melting of a quasi-one-dimensional
system of charged particles, interacting through a screened Coulomb potential. The ground …