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Complex fluid-fluid interfaces featuring mesoscale structures with adsorbedparticles are key components of newly designed materials which are continuouslyenriching the field of soft matter. Simulation tools which are able to copewith the different scales characterizing these systems are fundamentalrequirements for efficient theoretical investigations. In this paper we presenta novel simulation method, based on the approach of Ahlrichs and D\"unweg[Ahlrichs and D\"unweg, Int. J. Mod. Phys. C, 1998, 9, 1429], that couples the"Shan-Chen" multicomponent Lattice Boltzmann technique to off-lattice moleculardynamics to simulate efficiently complex fluid-fluid interfaces.  We demonstrate how this approach can be used to study a wide class ofchallenging problems. Several examples are given, with an accent onbicontinuous phases formation in polyelectrolyte solutions and ferrofluidemulsions. We also show that the introduction of solvation free energies in theparticle-fluid interaction unveils the hidden, multiscale nature of theparticle-fluid coupling, allowing to treat symmetrically (and interchangeably)the on-lattice and off-lattice components of the system.

Mesoscale Structures at Complex Fluid-Fluid Interfaces: a Novel Lattice Boltzmann / Molecular Dynamics Coupling