Occasionally referred to as ‘colloidal gold,’ gold colloid is a suspension comprising sub-micron gold nanoparticles suspended in a solvent - most commonly water. Gold nanoparticles' distinct ...

It is commonly assumed that tiny particles just go with the flow as they make their way through soil, biological tissue, and other complex materials. But a team of Yale researchers led by Professor ...

Being abundant in nature, colloids find increasingly important applications in science and technology, ranging from direct probing of kinetics in crystals and glasses to fabrication of ...

THE second edition of this work, like the first, is well adapted to introduce the general student to the subject, the theoretical portions and the accounts of experimental procedure being well ...

Imagine a "smart fluid" whose internal structure can be rearranged just by changing temperature. In a new study published in Matter, researchers report a way to overcome a long-standing limitation in ...

Physicists in the Netherlands have created artificial crystals made of colloidal particles that could be used to explore the behaviour of ordinary ionic crystals. The team discovered a number of new ...

Liquid crystals and colloids find increasingly important applications in science and technology, ranging from information displays to direct probing of kinetic processes in crystals and glasses, and ...

THIS work can claim to meet a long-felt want with more justice than the majority of publications heralded by that familiar phrase. Until its appearance it has been necessary to refer students to ...