Students will learn how to categorize matter as either pure substances or mixtures. Students will apply tests, based on physical properties of matter samples, to determine whether a mixture is ...

150 years of research and development have transformed colloidal silica from a scientific oddity to a mainstay of industrial manufacturing of products ranging from floor wax to jet engines Every child ...

Colloidal suspensions of nanometer to micrometer-sized particles in a host fluid can form liquid and crystalline phases, but also liquid crystalline mesophases if colloidal particles are, for example, ...

The principal model systems consist of PS particles synthesized via surfactant-free emulsion polymerization. For example, 600-nm-diameter positive spheres were made from a single-step reaction ...