Preventing bacterial colonization using colloidal crystals

Planar magnetic colloidal crystals.

We report a novel form of planar magnetic colloidal crystals formed by coated magnetic microspheres floating on a liquid meniscus. Under an external magnetic field, the balance between the repulsive magnetic interaction and the "attractive" interaction, due to the weight of the particles projected along the surface tangent, yields not only the triangular lattice with a variable lattice constant...

Taylor instabilities in colloidal crystals

2014 Recently we have developed a Couette viscosimeter for studying the shearing of colloidal crystals. We report here that with increasing shear rate the colloidal crystal melts (for 03C9crit) and above a critical shear rate, 03C9T0, Taylor instabilities develop. After stopping the shearing flow the suspension recrystallizes in a special texture which preserves the pattern of the Taylor rolls....

Preventing Salmonella Colonization of Chickens

Particle excursions in colloidal crystals.

We have performed synchrotron small-angle x-ray diffraction experiments on charge-stabilized colloidal crystals. The mean squared displacements, obtained from Debye-Waller factors, decrease with increasing density beyond freezing. Irrespective of the range of the repulsion, our data and previous results lie on a common curve, linearly scaled between the melting and close-packed densities. Surpr...

Microcontact printing of colloidal crystals.

Patterned two-dimensional (2D) colloidal crystals have been transferred by a modified mucp technique that was based on the use of polymer film as "glue" to provide an efficient interaction between the microsphere "ink" and substrate. The versatility of this method has been demonstrated by the patterning of colloidal crystal on a nonplanar substrate and heterogeneously structured colloidal cryst...