They make stable colloid dispersions by transferring surface-modified nanocrystals from organic solvents to molten salts or by mixing modified-nanocrystal powders directly with molten salts.

They made stable colloids by incorporating metal, semiconductor, rare-earth, and magnetic nanocrystals into AlCl 3 -NaCl-KCl and six other types of molten inorganic salts.

Being abundant in nature, colloids find increasingly important applications in science and technology, ranging from direct probing of kinetics in crystals and glasses to fabrication of ...

In this lecture we will investigate the “cool” materials we can make with colloids; examples will include coatings, adhesives, gels, and small particles that can “swim” or change size and shape.

We report a nanoscale "lost-wax" method for forming colloids with size distributions around 5% and their corresponding colloidal crystals. Macroporous polymer templates are first prepared from a ...

Researchers have merged two important technologies of nanomanipulation - plasmonic tweezers and magnetically driven microbots - in order to overcome their individual limitations and achieve new ...

Nature Materials - Colloids get activeThus active matter shows that research at the interface of the living and non-living can be productively pursued without having to bother with the arbitrary ...