Non-Equilibrium Phenomena in Soft Matter and Complex Fluids (NESTEX)
The aim of this Topical Team is to bring forward the collaboration of the Europeans teams involved in Colloids experiments and Fluid mixtures experiments with Chinese scientists. In particular the Chinese scientists have been involved in the past in the SCCO project and they are now also interested in the Giant Fluctuations experiments. In addition, the Chinese science team are involved in experiment on the rheology of colloidal suspensions such as gels and glass. These experiments are of interest of the European science team too. The European science team will perform similar experiments on the ISS using thermal stresses. The experiments on the CSS and the ISS are therefore complementary.