The collaborative research centre/Transregio 6 deals with the physics of colloidal dispersions, which are solutions or suspensions of mesoscopic solid particles with typical sizes ranging from 1 nm to 1 µm with a stable (i.e. non-fluctuating) core embedded in a molecular solvent. Among the various soft matter systems, colloidal dispersions play a prominent role because they can be both prepared and characterized in a controlled way. The effective interaction between the colloidal particles can be tailored. Moreover, colloidal suspensions can be regarded as the simplest prototype of soft matter. Exiting questions concern collective many-body effects induced by cooperation and self-organization of many particles. A striking advantage of colloidal dispersions lies in fact that these questions can be studied simultaneously by using three different complementary methods, namely experiment, computer simulation, and theory. In the Transregio, the structural and dynamical behaviour of colloidal dispersions in various external fields (electric, magnetic, laser optical, shear, confinement) will be explored both in equilibrium and in non-equilibrium.
This Transregio is the first "collaborative research centre" in which Dutch institutes participate.
DFG Programme
CRC/Transregios
International Connection
Netherlands
Completed projects
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A01 - Mixtures of Particles with Complex Architecture in Shear Flow
(Project Heads
Dhont, Jan Karel George
;
Lettinga, Minne Paul
)
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A02 - "Tunable" Model Systems for Soft Colloids
(Project Heads
Richter, Dieter
;
Stellbrink, Jörg
;
Willner, Lutz
)
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A04 - Colloidal Soft Matter under Shear Flow
(Project Heads
Gompper, Gerhard
;
Winkler, Roland G.
)
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A05 - Computer Simulations of Structure, Dynamics, and Phase Behavior of Colloidal Fluids in Confined Geometry and under Shear
(Project Heads
Binder, Kurt
;
Horbach, Jürgen
;
Virnau, Peter
)
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A06 - Time-Dependent Flow in Arrested States
(Project Heads
Brader, Ph.D., Joseph M.
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Egelhaaf, Stefan U.
;
Fuchs, Matthias
)
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A07 - Force-Driven Micro- and Macro-Rheology
(Project Heads
Fuchs, Matthias
;
Voigtmann, Thomas
)
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B01 - Structure and Transport Properties of Charged Sphere Suspensions in Electric Fields
(Project Head
Palberg, Thomas
)
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B02 - Electrokinetic Properties of Charged Colloids in External Fields
(Project Head
Nägele, Gerhard
)
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B3 - Time-Dependent Mean-Field Theory: The Dynamics of Charged Colloids
(Project Heads
von Grünberg, Hans Hennig
;
Klein, Rudolf
)
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B04 - Computer simulation of electrokinetics in colloidal systems
(Project Head
Dünweg, Burkhard
)
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B07 - Colloids in crossed electric and magnetic fields
(Project Heads
Butt, Hans-Jürgen
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Schmidt, Annette M.
;
Vollmer, Doris
)
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B08 - Phase Transitions of Confined Nanorods in Electric Fields
(Project Heads
van Blaaderen, Alfons
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Dijkstra, Marjolein
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Imhof, Arnout
;
van Roij, René
;
Vanmaekelbergh, Daniel
)
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B09 - Computer simulations of charged colloids in alternating electric fields
(Project Head
Schmid, Friederike
)
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C01 - Dynamics of autonomous swimmers in confinement
(Project Heads
Erbe, Artur Philipp Nikolaus
;
Leiderer, Paul
)
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C02 - Two-dimensional colloidal systems in anisotropic magnetic fields or in light fields
(Project Heads
Keim, Peter
;
Maret, Georg
)
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C03 - Phase Transitions of Two-Dimensional Paramagnetic Colloids in Extrernal Fields
(Project Heads
Likos, Christos N.
;
Löwen, Hartmut
)
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C04 - Effect of modulated boundaries on structure formation near the liquid-solid transition in equilibrium and under shear
(Project Heads
Binder, Kurt
;
Maret, Georg
;
Nielaba, Peter
)
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C5 - Hydrodynamically Coupled Colloidal Motors
(Project Heads
Gisler, Thomas
;
Maret, Georg
;
Stark, Holger
)
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C07 - Concentrated Colloidal Suspensions in Modulated Light Fields
(Project Head
Egelhaaf, Stefan U.
)
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D01 - Confined colloidal crystals in and out of equilibrium
(Project Heads
Löwen, Hartmut
;
Messina, René
;
Palberg, Thomas
;
Schöpe, Hans Joachim
)
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D03 - Differently shaped hard body colloids in confinement: from walls to porous media
(Project Heads
Löwen, Hartmut
;
Wensink, Henricus H.
)
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D05 - Mixtures of Rod-like and Spherical Colloids under Confinement: Phase Transition Kinetics
(Project Heads
Binder, Kurt
;
Schilling, Tanja
)
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D06 - Structure formation in columnar mineral liquid crystals in confinement
(Project Heads
Lekkerkerker, Henk N.W.
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Petoukhov, Andrei
;
Vroege, Gert Jan
)
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N01 - Colloids at Fluid interfaces
(Project Head
Oettel, Martin
)
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Z01 - Administration of the SFB/TR 6
(Project Head
Löwen, Hartmut
)
