Optical Methods and Physics of Colloidal Dispersions

Abstract

Preface.- In memoriam Klaus Schatzel.- Reviewing my time of personal cooperation with Klaus Schatzel.- Reviewing almost two decades of digital correlator development.- Hard-sphere colloidal suspensions studied by two-colour dynamic light scattering.- Dark speckle imaging of colloidal suspensions in multiple light scattering media.- Depolarized forward light scattering from anisotropic particles.- Assessment of the depletion forces in mixtures of a latex and a non-adsorbing polymer by turbidimetry.- Hard spheres versus Yukawa particles: Differences and similarities.- Multi-speckle autocorrelation spectroscopy - a new strategy to monitor ultraslow dynamics in dense and nonergodic media.- Single-mode DLS: colloids in opaque porous media.- Quantitative real-space analysis of colloidal structures and dynamics with confocal scanning light microscopy.- Spinodal decomposition of colloids in the intermediate stage.- Very low-angle static light scattering from steady-state and time-dependent nonequilibrium fluctuations.- Freezing in confined suspensions.- Investigation of shear-induced structures in lyotropic mesophases by scattering experiments.- Comparison of Bragg and SALS studies of crystallization in suspensions of hard spheres.- Effective interaction potential obtained from experimental structure factors: The inverse problem.- The use of reflectometry for the study of swelling of latex particles at a silica surface.- Measurement of particle diffusion coefficients with high accuracy by dynamic light scattering.- Photon correlation spectroscopy for analysis of low concentration submicrometer samples.- Approaching the limits of multiple scattering decorrelation: 3D light-scattering apparatus utilising semiconductor lasers.- Suppression of multiple scattered light by photon cross-correlation in a 3D experiment.- Coherent backscattering of light in multiple scattering media.- Polyorganosiloxane-microgels as probes for forced Rayleigh scattering.- Collective and self diffusion of PS microgels in solution as observed by thermal diffusion forced Rayleigh scattering.- Properties of TiO2 hydrosols synthesized by hydrolysis of titanium tetraethoxide.- Experimental study of fractal aggregation by static and dynamic light scattering.- Single cluster light scattering and photon correlation spectroscopy: Two powerful techniques for monitoring cluster aggregation.- Experimental evidence regarding the influence of surface charge on the bridging flocculation mechanism.- Colloidal stability - investigations by single-particle scattering photometer.- The micelle-to-vesicle transition as observed by time-resolved scattering experiments.- Droplet microemulsions: Determination of the bending elastic constants by photon correlation spectroscopy.- A hard sphere microemulsion.- Unusual phase behaviour from peculiar pair potentials: A density-functional-perturbation study.- DWS behaviour in gelling systems: Preliminary comparison with rheological measurements over sol-gel transition in latex-doped gelatin.- Phase transitions in nonadditive hard disc systems: a Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo Study.- Diffusion of colloids at short times.- Phase transitions in magnetic fluids.- Cell theory for the phase diagram of hard spherocylinders.- Structures of spherical particles dispersed in density matched media under oscillatory shear.- Is there scaling of the intermediate scattering function without hydrodynamic interactions? Brownian rods on a 1d-ring.- Static and dynamic light scattering from the nematic wetting layer in an Isotropic liquid crystal.- Film formation of latex dispersions observed with evanescent dynamic light scattering.- Direct observation of a buckling transition during the formation of thin colloidal crystals.- Microemulsions: Phase transitions and their dynamics.