| Foreword | p. v |
| Preface | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Complementarity and Interdisciplinarity | p. 4 |
| Basic Properties of Complex Plasmas | p. 9 |
| Charging of Particles | p. 9 |
| Collection of electrons and ions in isotropic plasmas | p. 10 |
| Effect of an external electric field | p. 14 |
| Other mechanisms of charging | p. 15 |
| Interaction Between Microparticles | p. 15 |
| Electrostatic mechanisms in isotropic plasmas | p. 15 |
| Effect of an external electric field | p. 18 |
| Other mechanisms of interaction | p. 20 |
| Momentum Exchange Between Species | p. 22 |
| Major External Forces | p. 24 |
| Basic Properties of Colloidal Dispersions | p. 29 |
| One-Body Properties | p. 30 |
| Dynamics | p. 30 |
| Charging of colloids | p. 32 |
| Two-Body Properties: Pair Interactions and Stability | p. 34 |
| One-component approach and many-body effects | p. 36 |
| Non-acqueous solvents: weak charging, steric stabilization, and experimental hard spheres | p. 37 |
| Colloidal microgels | p. 38 |
| Interactions Between Different Species | p. 39 |
| Hydrodynamic Interactions | p. 41 |
| Major External Fields | p. 43 |
| Confinement | p. 43 |
| Gravity | p. 44 |
| DC electric fields | p. 44 |
| AC electric and magnetic fields | p. 45 |
| Optical fields | p. 46 |
| Shear | p. 47 |
| Complex Plasmas and Colloidal Dispersions: Similarity and Complementarity | p. 49 |
| Important Dimensionless Parameters | p. 50 |
| Complex plasmas | p. 50 |
| Colloidal dispersions | p. 52 |
| Dynamic Regimes: Role of the Background | p. 53 |
| Kinetics in the Newtonian and Brownian regimes | p. 55 |
| Crossover between the dynamic regimes | p. 58 |
| Influence of particles on surrounding fluid | p. 63 |
| Role of Nonconservative Interactions | p. 64 |
| Wake-mediated interactions | p. 64 |
| Hydrodynamic interactions | p. 68 |
| Variable charges | p. 71 |
| Summary | p. 72 |
| Overview of Experimental Methods | p. 75 |
| Complex Plasmas | p. 75 |
| RF discharges | p. 75 |
| DC discharges | p. 83 |
| Other types of complex plasmas | p. 86 |
| Colloidal Dispersions | p. 87 |
| Preparation of colloidal dispersions | p. 88 |
| Optical/confocal microscopy | p. 89 |
| Real Space Analysis | p. 92 |
| Spatial particle tracking | p. 93 |
| Tracking in time | p. 94 |
| Non-equilibrium systems | p. 94 |
| Recent developments | p. 95 |
| Simple Liquids | p. 97 |
| Liquid Structure | p. 97 |
| Liquid Dynamics | p. 99 |
| Liquid-Vapor Phase Transition | p. 103 |
| Summary | p. 108 |
| Liquid-Solid Phase Transitions | p. 109 |
| Equilibrium Phase Diagram | p. 111 |
| 3D systems | p. 111 |
| 2D systems | p. 114 |
| Liquid-Solid Interfaces and Kinetics of 3D Transitions | p. 118 |
| Liquid-solid interface in equilibrium | p. 119 |
| Homogeneous versus heterogeneous nucleation | p. 120 |
| Kinetics of phaselets | p. 124 |
| Grain-boundary melting | p. 125 |
| Kinetic Processes in 2D Crystals | p. 126 |
| Scaling laws of 2D crystallization | p. 126 |
| Dynamics of dislocations | p. 131 |
| Confined Systems | p. 135 |
| Crossover between 3D and 2D melting | p. 135 |
| Crystalline structures in slit confinement | p. 137 |
| Other types of confinement | p. 144 |
| Summary | p. 146 |
| Binary Mixtures | p. 149 |
| Static Liquid Structure | p. 149 |
| Crystallization | p. 150 |
| 3D systems | p. 151 |
| 2D systems | p. 155 |
| Fluid Demixing | p. 162 |
| Phase equilibrium | p. 162 |
| Demixing kinetics | p. 165 |
| Limitations of mean-field approach | p. 169 |
| Particle-resolved studies | p. 170 |
| Summary | p. 176 |
| Slow Dynamics | p. 177 |
| Principal Characteristics and Concepts | p. 179 |
| Supercooled liquids | p. 179 |
| Dynamic heterogeneity and dynamic length scales | p. 181 |
| Boson peaks | p. 182 |
| Glass transition and soft matter | p. 183 |
| Basic Theories of Liquid-to-Glass Transition | p. 184 |
| Adam-Gibbs theory | p. 184 |
| Random first-order/mosaic theory | p. 185 |
| Mode coupling theory | p. 186 |
| Real-Space Analysis of Supercooled Liquids | p. 188 |
| Real-Space Analysis of Gels | p. 190 |
| Local Structure and Dynamic Arrest | p. 192 |
| Aging of Glasses | p. 195 |
| Summary | p. 196 |
| Driven Systems | p. 199 |
| Stable Shear Flows | p. 199 |
| Rheology | p. 203 |
| Theoretical approaches | p. 204 |
| Comparison with experiments and simulations | p. 208 |
| Heat Transport | p. 212 |
| Sedimentation and Basic Hydrodynamic Instabilities | p. 215 |
| Sedimentation | p. 215 |
| Rayleigh-Taylor instability | p. 218 |
| Shear-induced instabilities | p. 219 |
| Non-Equilibrium Phase Transitions | p. 223 |
| Laning | p. 223 |
| Banding | p. 233 |
| Motion of Particles in Channels | p. 235 |
| Summary | p. 240 |
| Anisotropic Interactions | p. 243 |
| Interactions Tunable by External Fields | p. 243 |
| Uniaxial fields | p. 243 |
| Multiaxial fields | p. 252 |
| Anisotropic Particles | p. 253 |
| Summary | p. 261 |
| Outlook | p. 263 |
| Symbols | p. 271 |
| Bibliography | p. 277 |
| Index | p. 317 |
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