Many materials that are being used today are disperse systems where one substance is dissolved in another phase. These types of materials comprise agrochemicals, adhesives, ceramics, cement, colloids, ...

What is our Universe made out of? At a fundamental level, to the best of our knowledge, the answer is simple: particles and fields. The type of matter that makes up humans, Earth, and all the stars, ...

This article provides a fundamental understanding of the key particle characterization methods that are being used in academia and industry alike, and assumes no previous information of either ...

Going to smaller and smaller distance scales reveals more fundamental views of nature, which means if we can understand and describe the smallest scales, we can build our way to an understanding of ...

Scientists have developed a new cooling method that will allow easier measurements of a property of protons and antiprotons called the magnetic moment. This is one of the properties that is being ...

Particle analysis provides assurances of the quality and performance of the final dosage form in pharmaceutical development. Whether characterizing particle size or structure, or investigating any ...

Particle analysis is a critical component of pharmaceutical development, providing assurances of the quality and performance of the final dosage form. Whether characterizing particle size or structure ...

A new special edition of EPJ Special Topics brings together several papers that detail our understanding of Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) and the processes that transformed it into the baryonic matter we ...

Complementarity A new twist on the double-slit experiment. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Andrey VP) One of the most counterintuitive concepts in physics – the idea that quantum objects are complementary, ...