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 …

We attempt a classification of different colloidal gels based on colloid–colloid interactions.
We discriminate primarily between non-equilibrium and equilibrium routes to gelation, the …

Colloids display intriguing transitions between gas, liquid, solid and liquid crystalline
phases. Such phase transitions are ubiquitous in nature and have been studied for decades …

Descriptions of phase separation in condensed matter have so far been classified into a
solid model (model B) and a fluid model (model H). In the former the diffusion is the only …

We use multispeckle dynamic light scattering to measure the dynamic structure factor, f (q, τ),
of gels formed by aggregation of colloids. Although the gel is an elastic solid, f (q, τ) nearly …

The aggregates and gels commonly observed during protein crystallization have generally
been considered disordered phases without further characterization. Here their physical …

Colloidal gel and glass transitions are investigated using the idealized mode coupling
theory (MCT) for model systems characterized by short-range attractive interactions. Results …

This review focuses on recent developments in the theoretical, numerical and experimental
study of slow dynamics in colloidal systems, with a particular emphasis on the glass …

We investigate the competition between spinodal decomposition and dynamical arrest using
aqueous solutions of the globular protein lysozyme as a model system for colloids with short …

The depletion attraction, induced upon addition of a nonadsorbing polymer to a colloidal
solution, can lead to gel formation at sufficiently high polymer concentrations, which …