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cond-mat.soft2025★ 9 cited

Learning the bulk and interfacial physics of liquid-liquid phase separation with neural density functionals

Silas Robitschko, Florian Sammüller, Matthias Schmidt +1

We use simulation-based supervised machine learning and classical density functional theory to investigate bulk and interfacial phenomena associated with phase coexistence in binar…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 15 cited

Structural signatures of ultrastability in a deposited glassformer

Fabio Leoni, Fausto Martelli, C. Patrick Royall +1

Glasses obtained from vapor deposition on a cold substrate have superior thermodynamic and kinetic stability with respect to ordinary glasses. Here we perform molecular dynamics si…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 24 cited

Active Brownian Particles in Random and Porous Environments

Fergus J. Moore, John Russo Tanniemola B. Liverpool, C. Patrick Royall

The transport of active particles may occur in complex environments, in which it emerges from the interplay between the mobility of the active components and the quenched disorder…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 11 cited

The rheology of confined colloidal hard discs

Ian Williams, Erdal C. Oğuz, Hartmut Löwen +2

Colloids may be treated as `big atoms' so that they are good models for atomic and molecular systems. Colloidal hard disks are therefore good models for 2d materials and although t…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 19 cited

Direct Imaging of Contacts and Forces in Colloidal Gels

Jun Dong, Francesco Turci, Robert L. Jack +2

Colloidal dispersions are prized as model systems to understand basic properties of materials, and are central to a wide range of industries from cosmetics to foods to agrichemical…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 9 cited

Protein-Polymer Mixtures in the Colloid Limit: Aggregation, Sedimentation and Crystallization

Rui Cheng, Jingwen Li, Ioatzin Ríos de Anda +5

While proteins have been treated as particles with a spherically symmetric interaction, of course in reality the situation is rather more complex. A simple step towards higher comp…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 48 cited

Real Space Analysis of Colloidal Gels: Triumphs, Challenges and Future Directions

C. Patrick Royall, Malcolm A. Faers, Sian L. Fussell +1

Colloidal gels constitute an important class of materials found in many contexts and with a wide range of applications. Yet as matter far from equilibrium, gels exhibit a variety o…

cond-mat.soft2021

Isomorphs in nanoconfined liquids

Benjamin M. G. D. Carter, C. Patrick Royall, Jeppe C. Dyre +1

We study in this paper the possible existence of Roskilde-simple liquids and their isomorphs in a rough-wall nanoconfinement. Isomorphs are curves in the thermodynamic phase diagra…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 17 cited

Flexible confinement leads to multiple relaxation regimes in glassy colloidal liquids

Ian Williams, Erdal C. Oğuz, Paul Bartlettl +2

Understanding relaxation of supercooled fluids is a major challenge and confining such systems can lead to bewildering behaviour. Here we exploit an optically confined colloidal mo…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 13 cited

The Devil is in the details: Pentagonal bipyramids and dynamic arrest

James E. Hallett, Francesco Turci, C. Patrick Royall

Colloidal suspensions have long been studied as a model for atomic and molecular systems, due to the ability to fluorescently label and individually track each particle, yielding p…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 2 cited

Electroadhesion for soft adhesive pads and robotics: theory and numerical results

Bo N. J. Persson, Jianglong Guo

Soft adhesive pads are needed for many robotics applications, and one approach is based on electroadhesion. Here we present a general analytic model and numerical results for elect…

cond-mat.soft2016★ 14 cited

Oil-in-water microfluidics on the colloidal scale: new routes to self-assembly and glassy packings

Max Meissner, Jun Dong, Jens Eggers +2

We have developed Norland Optical Adhesive (NOA) flow focusing devices, making use of the excellent solvent compatibility and surface properties of NOA to generate micron scale oil…

cond-mat.soft2014★ 69 cited

Strong geometric frustration in model glassformers

C. Patrick Royall, Alex Malins, Andrew J. Dunleavy +1

We consider three popular model glassformers, the Kob-Andersen and Wahnström binary Lennard-Jones models and weakly polydisperse hard spheres. Although these systems exhibit a rang…

cond-mat.soft2014★ 22 cited

Structural characterisation of polycrystalline colloidal monolayers in the presence of aspherical impurities

Andrew T. Gray, Elizabeth Mould, C. Patrick Royall +1

Impurities in crystalline materials introduce disorder into an otherwise ordered structure due to the formation of lattice defects and grain boundaries. The properties of the resul…

cond-mat.soft2014★ 478 cited

The role of local structure in dynamical arrest

C. Patrick Royall, Stephen R. Williams

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…

cond-mat.soft2013★ 3 cited

Counterion Condensation on Spheres in the Salt-free Limit

David A. J. Gillespie, James E. Hallett, Oluwapemi Elujoba +3

A highly-charged spherical colloid in a salt-free environment exerts such a powerful attraction on its counterions that a certain fraction condenses onto the surface of a particle.…

cond-mat.soft2012★ 119 cited

Identification of long-lived clusters and their link to slow dynamics in a model glass former

Alex Malins, Jens Eggers, C. Patrick Royall +2

We study the relationship between local structural ordering and dynamical heterogeneities in a model glass-forming liquid, the Wahnstrom mixture. A novel cluster-based approach is…

cond-mat.soft2010★ 27 cited

Binary non-additive hard sphere mixtures: Fluid demixing, asymptotic decay of correlations and free fluid interfaces

Paul Hopkins, Matthias Schmidt

Using a fundamental measure density functional theory we investigate both bulk and inhomogeneous systems of the binary non-additive hard sphere model. For sufficiently large (posit…

cond-mat.soft2001

Generalized effective depletion potentials

A. A. Louis, R. Roth

We propose that the behavior of asymmetric binary fluid mixtures with a large class of attractive or repulsive interparticle interactions can be understood by mapping onto effectiv…