Amorphous solids, or glasses, are distinguished from crystalline solids by their lack of long-
range structural order. At the level of two-body structural correlations, glassformers show no …

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 …

Many fundamental issues in classical condensed matter physics can be addressed
experimentally using systems of individually visible mesoscopic particles playing the role of …

Colloids have increasingly been used to characterize or mimic many aspects of atomic and
molecular systems. With confocal microscopy these colloidal particles can be tracked …

This review collects and describes experiments that employ colloidal suspensions to probe
physics in ordered and disordered solids and related complex fluids. The unifying feature of …

Many high-concentration multiphase materials that are industrially and academically
important do not reach thermodynamic equilibrium because of kinetic constraints originating …

The ageing behaviour of dense suspensions or pastes at rest is almost exclusively attributed
to structural dynamics. Here, we identify another ageing process, contact-controlled ageing …

Colloids are suspensions of small solid particles in a liquid and exhibit glassy behavior
when the particle concentration is high. In these samples, the particles are roughly …

Over the last decade, the light microscope has become increasingly useful as a quantitative
tool for studying colloidal systems. The ability to obtain particle coordinates in bulk samples …

The mechanical properties of crystals are controlled by the translational symmetry of their
structures. But for glasses with a disordered structure, the link between the symmetry of local …