Colloidal systems future directions

How will the method develop in the future This is of course difficult to predict. However, it seems clear that there will be two main directions, a further development of the method itself, and its application to new problems in Soft Matter hydrodynamics. On the methodological front, there are several very recent developments, like angular-momentum conservation, multi-phase flows and viscoelastic fluids, which have to be explored in more detail. It will also be interesting to combine them to study, for example, multi-phase flows of viscoelastic fluids. On the application side, the trend will undoubtedly be towards more complex systems, in which thermal fluctuations are important. In such systems, the method can play out its strengths, because the interactions of colloids, polymers, and membranes with the mesoscale solvent can all be treated on the same basis. 

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