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most citedColloidal Hard Spheres: Triumphs, Challenges and Mysteries

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cond-mat.soft2026

Polymorph Selection in Charged Colloids in the Second Nucleation Step

C. Patrick Royall

We study polymorph selection in a model of charged colloids, with a focus on the higher-order structure prior to and during nucleation. Specifically, we carry out molecular dynamic…

cond-mat.soft2024

Colloidoscope: Detecting Dense Colloids in 3d with Deep Learning

Abdelwahab Kawafi, Lars Kürten, Levke Ortlieb +4

Colloidoscope is a deep learning pipeline employing a 3D residual Unet architecture, designed to enhance the tracking of dense colloidal suspensions through confocal microscopy. Th…

cond-mat.soft2024

Yielding in colloidal gels: from local structure to meso-scale strand breakage and macroscopic failure

Himangsu Bhaumik, Tanniemola B. Liverpool, C. Patrick Royall +1

We study creep flow and yielding of particulate depletion gels under constant shear stress, combining data on different length and time scales. We characterise the breakage of meso…

cond-mat.soft2024

Identification and classification of clusters of dipolar colloids in an external field

Katherine Skipper, Fergus J. Moore, C. Patrick Royall

Colloids can acquire a dipolar interaction in the presence of an external electric field. At high field strength, the particles form strings in the field direction. However at weak…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 1 cited

Traveling strings of active dipolar colloids

Xichen Chao, Katherine Skipper, C. Patrick Royall +2

We study an intriguing new type of self-assembled active colloidal polymer system in 3D. It is obtained from a suspension of Janus particles in an electric field that induces paral…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 95 cited

Colloidal Hard Spheres: Triumphs, Challenges and Mysteries

C. Patrick Royall, Patrick Charbonneau, Marjolein Dijkstra +4

The simplicity of hard spheres as a model system is deceptive. Although the particles interact solely through volume exclusion, that nevertheless suffices for a wealth of static an…