1992/07/01 by Pierre‐Gilles de Gennes · 2 citations
Materials Science · Chemical Engineering · #Liquid Crystal Research Advancements #Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization #Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies
paper · doi:10.1002/anie.199208421
openalex publication_date 1992/07/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
Polymers, tensides, liquid crystals, and colloids have always stood at the forefront of Pierre‐Gilles de Gennes's interests. He obtained the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1991, and his Nobel lecture is a “sentimental journey in the wonderland of soft matter”, which is what he calls complex fluids. In his contribution, de Gennes laid more emphasis on the description of experiments than on theory. Thus he devotes one section to the techniques for making “Janus grains” from hollow glass particles; these grains are microparticles with a polar and an apolar side and have interesting properties for potential applications.