Suggested Outside Reading:
1) This is a general source on flocculation and how it's used to remove contaminants in water treatment:
http://www.iwapublishing.com/news/coagulation-and-flocculation-water-and-wastewater-treatment
2) This is the paper Athena's group put out on using confocal fluorescence microscopy to image the microstructure of flocs:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215038215300662
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Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro