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Viscoelasticity of colloidal polycrystals doped with impurities
Ameur Louhichi, Elisa Tamborini, Julian Oberdisse +2
We investigate how the microstructure of a colloidal polycrystal influences its linear viscoelasticity. We use thermosensitive copolymer micelles that arrange in water in a cubic c…
Correlation between crystalline order and vitrification in colloidal monolayers
Elisa Tamborini, C. Patrick Royall, Pietro Cicuta
We investigate experimentally the relationship between local structure and dynamical arrest in a quasi-2d colloidal model system which approximates hard discs. We introduce polydis…
Plasticity of a colloidal polycrystal under cyclic shear
Elisa Tamborini, Luca Cipelletti, Laurence Ramos
We use confocal microscopy and time-resolved light scattering to investigate plasticity in a col- loidal polycrystal, following the evolution of the network of grain boundaries as…
Nucleation and growth of micellar polycrystals under time-dependent volume fraction conditions
A. Louhichi, E. Tamborini, N. Ghofraniha +5
We study the freezing kinetics of colloidal polycrystals made of micelles of Pluronic F108, a thermosensitive copolymer, to which a small amount of silica nanoparticles of size com…
Structure of nanoparticles embedded in micellar polycrystals
Elisa Tamborini, Neda Ghofraniha, Julian Oberdisse +2
We investigate by scattering techniques the structure of water-based soft composite materials comprising a crystal made of Pluronic block-copolymer micelles arranged in a face-cent…
Grain refinement and partitioning of impurities in the grain boundaries of a colloidal polycrystal
Neda Ghofraniha, Elisa Tamborini, Julian Oberdisse +2
We study the crystallization of a colloidal model system in presence of secondary nanoparticles acting as impurities. Using confocal microscopy, we show that the nanoparticles segr…