Ask any question about EPFL courses, lectures, exercises, research, news, etc. or try the example questions below.
DISCLAIMER: The Graph Chatbot is not programmed to provide explicit or categorical answers to your questions. Rather, it transforms your questions into API requests that are distributed across the various IT services officially administered by EPFL. Its purpose is solely to collect and recommend relevant references to content that you can explore to help you answer your questions.
We discuss the situation where attractive and repulsive portions of the interparticle potential both contribute significantly to glass formation. We introduce the square-well potential as prototypical model for this situation, and reject the Baxter model a ...
We discuss the ideal glass transition for two types of potential model of attractive colloidal systems, i.e. the square-well system and the Yukawa hard-sphere fluid. We use the framework of the ideal mode-coupling theory and we mostly focus our attention o ...
Within the framework of the mode-coupling theory of super-cooled liquids, we investigate new phenomena in colloidal systems on approach to their glass transitions. When the inter-particle potential contains an attractive part, besides the usual repulsive h ...
We have studied a model of a complex fluid consisting of particles interacting through a hard-core and short-range attractive potential of both Yukawa and square-well form. Using a hybrid method, including a self-consistent and quite accurate approximation ...
The transition from a liquid to a glass in colloidal suspensions of particles interacting through a hard core plus an attractive square-well potential is studied within the rnode-coupling-theory framework. When the width of the attractive potential is much ...
A PEG-based polymer matrix is developed within which biol. macromols. and living mammalian cells could be easily dispersed. Constraints placed upon such a matrix by a desire that it be generally processable in the presence of biol. macromols. and living ce ...
Hyper Rayleigh scattering in solution is used for the determination of the first order hyperpolarizability b(colloid) of gold colloids in the size range 5–22 nm; these hyperpolarizabilities are found to range from 0.60 × 10–25 esu for 5 nm diameter colloid ...
Novel method for intermolecular cyclization by formation of a biaryl ether bridge through the reaction as shown above. In formulas (I) and (II) R1 is a nitro radical adjacent to the oxygen bridge, Hal is a fluoride or chlorine atom, R2, R3 and R4 together ...
Interfaces in metal and ceramic composites differ from interfaces in polymer matrix composites inasmuch as: (i) fiber degradation due to chemical reaction with the matrix at processing temperatures is frequent and (ii) bonding at the interface is generally ...
BACKGROUND: We present the synthesis, characterization and initial structure-function analysis of a new class of bioactive agent that allows the application of techniques from colloid science to biological surfaces. Stable colloidal suspensions can be gene ...