Gallery
Gallery
PNAS Cover
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Created 07/31/2001
Negligibly charged colloidal microspheres (blue) aggregate in aqueous solution but undergo a stabilizing transition upon addition of highly charged nanoparticles (red). This type of self-organization, or haloing, provides a new method for tailoring the behavior of complex fluids.
Credits
- V. Tohver
- J. A. Lewis
- C. Martinez