Optical Methods and Physics of Colloidal Dispersions

Preface....Pages V-VI
In memoriam Klaus Schätzel....Pages 1-3
Reviewing my time of personal cooperation with Klaus Schätzel....Pages 4-5
Reviewing almost two decades of digital correlator development....Pages 6-7
Hard-sphere colloidal suspensions studied by two-colour dynamic light scattering....Pages 8-11
Dark speckle imaging of colloidal suspensions in multiple light scattering media....Pages 12-16
Depolarized forward light scattering from anisotropic particles....Pages 17-22
Assessment of the depletion forces in mixtures of a latex and a non-adsorbing polymer by turbidimetry....Pages 23-30
Hard spheres versus Yukawa particles: Differences and similarities....Pages 31-39
Multi-speckle autocorrelation spectroscopy — a new strategy to monitor ultraslow dynamics in dense and nonergodic media....Pages 40-48
Single-mode DLS: colloids in opaque porous media....Pages 49-58
Quantitative real-space analysis of colloidal structures and dynamics with confocal scanning light microscopy....Pages 59-65
Spinodal decomposition of colloids in the intermediate stage....Pages 66-75
Very low-angle static light scattering from steady-state and time-dependent nonequilibrium fluctuations....Pages 76-80
Freezing in confined suspensions....Pages 81-89
Investigation of shear-induced structures in lyotropic mesophases by scattering experiments....Pages 90-96
Comparison of Bragg and SALS studies of crystallization in suspensions of hard spheres....Pages 97-103
Effective interaction potential obtained from experimental structure factors: The inverse problem....Pages 104-106
The use of reflectometry for the study of swelling of latex particles at a silica surface....Pages 107-109
Measurement of particle diffusion coefficients with high accuracy by dynamic light scattering....Pages 110-112
Photon correlation spectroscopy for analysis of low concentration submicrometer samples....Pages 113-116
Approaching the limits of multiple scattering decorrelation: 3D light-scattering apparatus utilising semiconductor lasers....Pages 117-120
Suppression of multiple scattered light by photon cross-correlation in a 3D experiment....Pages 121-125
Coherent backscattering of light in multiple scattering media....Pages 126-128
Polyorganosiloxane-microgels as probes for forced Rayleigh scattering....Pages 129-131
Collective and self diffusion of PS microgels in solution as observed by thermal diffusion forced Rayleigh scattering....Pages 132-134
Properties of TiO 2 hydrosols synthesized by hydrolysis of titanium tetraethoxide....Pages 135-137
Experimental study of fractal aggregation by static and dynamic light scattering....Pages 138-140
Single cluster light scattering and photon correlation spectroscopy: Two powerful techniques for monitoring cluster aggregation....Pages 141-143
Experimental evidence regarding the influence of surface charge on the bridging flocculation mechanism....Pages 144-147
Colloidal stability — investigations by single-particle scattering photometer....Pages 148-151
The micelle-to-vesicle transition as observed by time-resolved scattering experiments....Pages 152-154
Droplet microemulsions: Determination of the bending elastic constants by photon correlation spectroscopy....Pages 155-156
A hard sphere microemulsion....Pages 157-159
Unusual phase behaviour from peculiar pair potentials: A density-functional-perturbation study....Pages 160-162
DWS behaviour in gelling systems: Preliminary comparison with rheological measurements over sol-gel transition in latex-doped gelatin....Pages 163-165
Phase transitions in nonadditive hard disc systems: a Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo Study....Pages 166-167
Diffusion of colloids at short times....Pages 168-172
Phase transitions in magnetic fluids....Pages 173-176
Cell theory for the phase diagram of hard spherocylinders....Pages 177-179
Structures of spherical particles dispersed in density matched media under oscillatory shear....Pages 180-182
Is there scaling of the intermediate scattering function without hydrodynamic interactions? Brownian rods on a 1d-ring....Pages 183-186
Static and dynamic light scattering from the nematic wetting layer in an Isotropic liquid crystal....Pages 187-190
Film formation of latex dispersions observed with evanescent dynamic light scattering....Pages 191-193
Direct observation of a buckling transition during the formation of thin colloidal crystals....Pages 194-197
Microemulsions: Phase transitions and their dynamics....Pages 198-200