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Physics Department, Bar-Ilan University

Sloutskin Lab: Soft Condensed Matter Physics

Colloidal fluid.

Real-time confocal microscopy

Physics of colloids

We employ confocal microscopy and light scattering to study phase transitions in systems of colloids, micron-sized particles, undergoing Brownian motion in a liquid.

Colloids exhibit liquid, crystalline, glass, gel and liquid-crystalline phases, mimicking atoms and molecules.

Employing confocal microscopy, we follow tens of thousands of individual particles in real time, in three dimensions. This unprecedentedly-detailed experimental information, which is not available with any other experimental technique, allows  a much deeper understanding of phase transitions to be achieved, applicable for a wide range of physical systems.

Physics Department

Bar-Ilan University

Ramat-Gan 52900

Israel

To contact us:

Phone: ++972-3-738-4506

E-mail: eli.sloutskin at biu.ac.il

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