The film "The Colloidal State" explores the concept of colloids, which are materials in a dispersion where small particles of one substance are distributed throughout another. It distinguishes ...

The electric field generated in the sedimentation or centrifugation of charged colloidal particles could be exploited to determine the charge and the mass of macromolecules in a single experiment. In ...

Lee R. White wanted to be a theoretical physicist. But while he was finishing his doctoral degree, an applied math professor talked him into examining the forces between particles in solution.