Preface to the USTC Alumni's SeriesPreface Chapter 1 What Are Colloids? 1.1 Colloids and the atoms: counting the atoms1.2 Micro-rheology Probe the material properties at microscopic level1.3 Laser tweezers����Apply external force to nanoparticles1.4 Colloids1.4.1 Miniature of the physical world and tangible .models of the atomic world1.4 2 lnteligent" colloids Chapter 2 Colloids and Phase Transitions 2.1 The hard sphere model2.1.1 The van der Waals picture of fluids2.1.2 Close packing of spheres as the principle of crystal structure2.1 3 Hard sphere model for disorder-order transit'ion2.2 Model colloidal hard sphere systems 2 2.1 Minimizing van der Waals interaction by refractive index matching2 2.2 Stabilization2.2.3 Model Colloidal Hard Spheres2.3 Properties of hard sphere dispersions2.3.1 Phase behavior2.3.2 Equation of state continuing Perrin's measurement at higher concentrations)2.3.3 Rheology of the fluid and metastable fluid states2.3.4 Crystal structures2.3.5 Crystallization kinetics 2.4 Colloids in space 2.4.1 Surprising observations2.4.2 Crystallization kinetics2.5 Confocal Imaging: Catch the critical nucleus2.6 How well do we understand nucleation?2.7 Applications of colloidal crystals2.8 Single crystal growth in a temperature gradientChapter 3 Microfluidics3.1 Make emulsions drop by drop3.2 Emulsion crystallization to measure the nucleation rate of colloidal crystallization3.3 Living cell encapsulation3.3.1 Colloidosomes3.3.2 Layer by layer coating3.3.3 Agarose droplets generation3.3.4 Yeast cell encapsulation3 3.5 Tailor the transport property of the microencapsules by LbL coating3.3.6 Enhancement of the mechanical stability of the microencapsules by hand-particle coating (Colloidosomes)3.4 Cell manipulation by microfluidicsChapter 4 Biocoiloids4.1 Biocolloids4.2 The cell volume change before freezing4.2.1 The equilibrium volume ofacell4.2.2 The non-equilibrium volume of a cell4.3 The change of cell volume during cooling/freezing4.3 1 Rapid cooling4.3.2 Slow cooling4.3.3 Optimal cooling4.3 4 Modeling the volumetric response of a cell to freezing4.4 Other mechanisms of cryoinjury4.4.1 Cryoinjury during the Storage Period 4.4.2 Cell injuries in the warming process4.4.3 "Cold Stock" Injury4.5 Banking cells at their dried state4.5.1 Brief History of Freeze Drying4.5.2 Freeze-Drying Process and Its Control 4.5.3 Some cells having been driedReference