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Critical Casimir levitation of colloids above a bull's-eye pattern
Piotr Nowakowski, Nima Farahmand Bafi, Giovanni Volpe +2
Critical Casimir forces emerge among particles or surfaces immersed in a near-critical fluid, with the sign of the force determined by surface properties and with its strength tuna…
Nanoalignment by Critical Casimir Torques
Gan Wang, Piotr Nowakowski, Nima Farahmand Bafi +7
The manipulation of microscopic objects requires precise and controllable forces and torques. Recent advances have led to the use of critical Casimir forces as a powerful tool, whi…
Critical Casimir forces in soft matter
Andrea Gambassi, S. Dietrich
We review recent advances in the theoretical, numerical, and experimental studies of critical Casimir forces in soft matter, with particular emphasis on their relevance for the str…
Probing interface localization-delocalization transitions by colloids
Svyatoslav Kondrat, Oleg A. Vasilyev, S. Dietrich
Interface localization-delocalization transitions (ILDT) occur in two-phase fluids confined in a slit with competing preferences of the walls for the two fluid phases. At low tempe…
Three-body critical Casimir forces
T. G. Mattos, L. Harnau, S. Dietrich
Within mean-field theory we calculate universal scaling functions associated with critical Casimir forces for a system consisting of three parallel cylindrical colloids immersed in…
Effective interaction between a colloid and a soft interface near criticality
Adam D. Law, Ludger Harnau, Matthias Troendle +1
Within mean-field theory we determine the universal scaling function for the effective force acting on a single colloid located near the interface between two coexisting liquid pha…
Critical Casimir interactions around the consolute point of a binary solvent
T. F. Mohry, S. Kondrat, A. Maciolek +1
Spatial confinement of a near-critical medium changes its fluctuation spectrum and modifies the corresponding order parameter distribution. These effects result in effective, so-ca…
Critical Casimir torques and forces acting on needles in two spatial dimensions
O. A. Vasilyev, E. Eisenriegler, S. Dietrich
We investigate the universal orientation-dependent interactions between non-spherical colloidal particles immersed in a critical solvent by studying the instructive paradigm of a n…
Critical Casimir effect for colloids close to chemically patterned substrates
M. Tröndle, S. Kondrat, A. Gambassi +2
Colloids immersed in a critical or near-critical binary liquid mixture and close to a chemically patterned substrate are subject to normal and lateral critical Casimir forces of do…