13th July 2021: PhD defense of Clément Gouiller

Congratulations to Clément who defended his PhD entitled "Interfacial swimmers: dynamics, transport and dispersion".

February 2021: PhD defense of Leonel Stermann

Congratulations to Leonel Stermann who defended his PhD on the "Micromechanics of Hydrogen Embrittlement of Aluminum Alloys".

December 2020: A pinch of salt to trigger electrical trapping

Cécile Cottin-Bizonne and Christophe Pirat, with colleagues from UK, published an article entitled "Reversible trapping of colloids in microgrooved channels via diffusiophoresis under steady-state solute gradients" in the journal Physical Review Letters.

October 2020: PhD defense of Dolachai Boniface

Congratulations to Dolachai Boniface who defended his PhD on the "Dynamics of interfacial swimmers".

September 2020: PhD defense of Ong Klongvessa

Congratulations to Ong Klongvessa who defended  her PhD entitled "Investigation of dense assemblies of self-propelled colloids: Collective behavior and rheological properties".

July 2020: PhD defense of Justin Pemeja

Congratulations to Justin Pemeja who defended his PhD entitled "Yield stress fluids in confined media: microstructure, slip and soap films".

June 2020: Flocks of camphor particles can mimick fluid turbulence

Ronan Kervil, Cécile Cottin-Bizonne and Christophe Ybert, with colleagues from Lyon, published an article entitled "Kolmogorovian active turbulence of a sparse assembly of interacting Marangoni surfers" in the journal Physical Review X.

May 2020: Electricity to heat and stabilize liquid foams

Anne-Laure Biance, with colleagues from iLM, published an article entitled "Thermally enhanced electro-osmosis to control foam stability" in the journal Physical Review X.

 February 2020: CNRS bronze medal for Marie Le Merrer

Congratulation to Marie Le Merrer who has been awarded the CNRS bronze medal!

January 2020: E=M6 on ironing

What is the physics of ironing? Cécile Cottin-Bizone and Anne-Laure Biance, with the collaboration of Agnés Piednoir, Justin Péméja and a special guest, offered a gentle introduction in the TV show E=M6, available here  [minute 20].

December 2019: Activating a glass slows it down

Natsuda Klongvessa, Félix Ginot, Christophe Ybert, Cécile Cottin-Bizonne and Mathieu Leocmach  published an article entitled "Active glass: ergodicity breaking dramatically affects response to self-propulsion" in the journal Physical Review Letters, together with a complementary analysis in Physical Review E. This work was selected for a highlight by the INP.

December 2019: Brownian granular suspension flow at any angle

Antoine Bérut,  with colleagues from Marseille, published an article entitled "Brownian granular flows down heaps" in the journal Physical Review Letters.

December 2019: PhD defense of Emmanuel Guillerm

Congratulations to Emmanuel Guillerm who defended his PhD entitled "Turning halite fluid inclusions into accurate paleothermometers with Brillouin spectroscopy: development of a new method and application to the last interglacial in the Dead Sea"

November 2019:  Ville de Lyon award for Antoine Berut

Antoine Berut, who is assistant professor in the team, is the laureate of the 2019 Young Researcher Award of the Lyon Metropolis in the Science and Engineering category.

October 2019: PhD defense of Romain Berthelard

Congratulations to Romain Berthelard who defended his PhD entitled "Decoupling between viscosity and self-diffusion in supercooled diluted aqueous solutions"

May 2019: Seismic law in a granular experiment

Sébastien Lherminier, Ramon Planet, Victor Levy dit Vehel, Gilles Simon, Loïc Vanel and Osvanny Ramos, with colleagues from Oslo, published an article entitled "Continuously sheared granular matter reproduces in detail seismicity laws" in the journal Physical Review Letters. This article has been selected as an Editor’s suggestion, as a Focus in Physics and for a highlight by INP.

May 2019: How does a gel become mechanically stable?

Mathieu Leocmach, with colleagues from Tokyo and Bristol, published an article entitled "Direct link between mechanical stability in gels and percolation of isostatic particles" in the journal Science Advances.

 February 2019: PhD defense of Bahareh Zareeipolgardani

Congratulations to Bahareh Zareeipolgardani who defended her PhD entitled "Surface reactivity of soft minerals at atomic scale ".

November 2018: Salt tunnels formed by the evaporation of a drop

Alexandra Mailleur, Christophe Pirat and Jean Colombani published an article entitled "Hollow rims from water drop evaporation on salt substrates" in Physical Review Letters. The work was selected for the cover of the journal.

 September 2018: PhD defense of Teresa Liberto

Congratulation to Teresa Liberto who defended her PhD entitled "Physico-chemical study of calcite colloidal suspensions: from macroscopic rheology to microscopic interaction".

July 2018: Why cracks rarely connect tip to tip

Marie-Emeline Schwaab, Thierry Biben et Loïc Vanel, in collaboration with colleagues from Lyon, published an article entitled  "Interacting cracks obey a multi-scale attractive to repulsive transition" in the journal Physical Review Letters.This article was highlighted on the APS website.

 July 2018: PhD defense of Quentin Ehlinger

Congratulation to Quentin Ehlinger who defended his PhD entitled : "Impact of Leidenfrost droplets on locally textured substrate"

 June 2018: Immobile surfactant over flowing water

Baptiste Blanc, Christophe Ybert and Anne-Laure Biance, with colleagues from  team ONLI, published an article entitled "Electroosmosis near surfactant laden liquid–air interfaces" in the journal Soft Matter. This article was selected for the cover of the journal.

 May 2018: Clustering of active particles

Félix Ginot, Isaac Theurkoff, François Detcheverry, Christophe Ybert andt Cécile Cottin-Bizonne published an article entitled  «Aggregation-fragmentation and individual dynamics of active clusters» in the journal Nature Communications.

 April 2018: PhD defense of Ronan Kervil

Congratulation to Ronan Kervil who defended his PhD entitled : "Active matter and flows: bacterial jets and interfacial swimmers"

 September 2017: PhD defense of Andrea Titta

Congratulation to Andrea Titta who defended his PhD on the level-set simulation of elementary T1 events in foam dynamics.

 July 2017: Crystal gel and colloidal rain

Mathieu Leocmach, with colleagues from Tokyo and Bristol, published an article entitled " Formation of porous crystals via viscoelastic phase separation " in the journal Nature Materials.

February 2017: a bronze medal for Anne-Laure Biance

Congratulation to Anne-Laure Biance who has been awarded a bronze medal by the CNRS !

July 2016: "WaterX: Exotic properties of water under extreme conditions"

Frederic Caupin is organizing a STATPHYS satellite meeting entitled waterX. (July 13-16, Nic). This program will bring together leading experimental, theoretical, and computational scientists from among the unusually broad community of researchers interested in water physics and chemistry under extreme conditions, where extreme reads from deep supercooled regimes to very high or negative pressures, ultrashort time scales, extreme confinement, etc…

June 2016: "Out-of-equilibrium & active soft matter" conference

Together with Ludovic Berthier, Denis Bartolo, Lydéric Boquet and Luca Cipelletti,  Cécile Cottin-Bizonne is organizing a STATPHYS satellite meeting on Out-of-Equilibrium & Active Soft Matter. These five-day meeting (June 27-01 July  2016) will take place at the Marine Station of Roscoff, France. The online abstract submission is now open (here)

January 2016: Franco-Brazilian chair awarded to Stella Ramos-Canut

February 2016: bubbles and drops break the symmetry

October 2015: And yet she is flowing !

September 2015 : Casting light on temperature of the past

Mouna El Mekki-Azouzi, Chandra Shekhar Pati Tripathi, Gaël Pallares and Frédéric Caupin, together with Véronique Gardien from Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, have published an article entitled "Brillouin spectroscopy of fluid inclusions proposed as a paleothermometer for subsurface rocks" in the journal Scientific Reports. This work has been highlighted in a "communiqué de presse" UCBL/CNRS.

January 2015 : an effective attraction between active particles

Félix Ginot,  Isaac Theurkauff, Christophe Ybert, Lydéric Bocquet and Cécile  Cottin-Bizonne, with colleagues from the Laboratoire Charles Coulomb in Montpellier,  have published an article entitled "Nonequilibrium equation of state in suspensions of active colloids" in the journal Physical Review X.

September 2014 : Osmotic flow without selective membrane

ChoongYeop Lee, Cécile Cottin-Bizonne, Anne-Laure Biance, Lydéric Bocquet and Christophe Ybert have published in collaboration with a colleague from Toulouse "Osmotic flow through fully permeable nanochannels" in the journal Physical Review Letters. This article was selected as an editor's suggestion.

September 2014 : Acoustics reveals the structure of granular materials

Sébastien Lherminier, Ramon Planet, Gilles Simon, Loïc Vanel and Osvanny Ramos have published an article entitled "Revealing the structure of a granular medium through ballistic sound propagation" in the journal Physical Review Letters. This article was selected for the cover.

Aout 2014: Slipping on soapy water

Laurent Joly, François Detcheverry and Anne-Laure Biance have published an article entitled "Anomalous zeta potential in foam films" in the journal Physical Review Letters. This article was selected as an editor's suggestion.

June 2014: Anomalies of bulk supercooled water at negative pressure

Gael Pallares, Mouna El Mekki Azouzi and Frédéric Caupin have published an article entitled "Anomalies of bulk supercooled water at negative pressure" in the journal PNAS and highlighted in Le Monde.

March 2014 : When slow events require high-frequency measurements

Menka Stojanova, Loïc Vanel et Osvanny Ramos, together with S. Santucci from l'ENS Lyon, have published an article entitled High frequency monitoring reveals aftershocks in subcritical crack growth in the journal Physical Review Letters.

October 2013: Sound and light in a particle detector

Alexis Tantot, Osvanny Ramos and Loïc Vanel have published, together with colleagues from Canada, ENS Lyon and l'INSA Lyon an article intitled Sound and Light from Fractures in Scintillators in the journal  Physical Review Letters. This article was selected as an editor's suggestion, and was highlighted in a  synopsis on the website of the American Physical Society.

September 2013: does aquaporins shape optimize flow through membranes?

Simon Gravelle, Laurent Joly, François Detcheverry, Christophe Ybert, Cécile Cottin-Bizonne and Lydéric Bocquet have published an article entitled Optimizing water permeability through the hourglass shape of aquaporins in the journal PNAS.

June 2013: IUF nomination

Catherine Barentin was appointed as a Junior member of Institut Universitaire de France for the next five years. The "Institut Universitaire de France" aims at fostering top-level research thoughout French universities and strenghtening interdisciplinarity.

April 2013: Effect of disorder on the fracture dynamics

Osvanny Ramos and Loïc Vanel, together with S. Cilliberto (ENS Lyon) and P.-P. Cortet (FAST laboratory, Orsay), have published an article entitled Experimental Study of the Effect of Disorder on Subcritical Crack Growth Dynamics in the journal Physical Review Letters.

February 2013: Fluidic transport in a single nanotube.

Alessandro Siria, Philippe Poncharal, Anne-Laure Biance, Rémy Fulcrand, Steve Purcell and Lydéric Bocquet (Liquids at Interfaces and PNEC teams) have published with Xavier Blase (from Institut Néel, Grenoble) an article entitled Giant osmotic energy conversion measured in a single transmembrane boron nitride nanotube in the journal Nature. This article was highlighted in a CNRS press release.

February 2013: Nanofluidics in a soap film

Oriane Bonhomme, Olivier Liot, Anne-Laure Biance and Lydéric Bocquet have published an article entitled Soft Nanofluidic Transport in a Soap Film in the journal Physical Review Letters. This article was highlighted in a  focus on the website of the  American Physical Society.

January 2013: Water at negative pressure

Mona El Mekki Azouzi and Frédéric Caupin, together with C. Ramboz  (ISTO, Orléans) and  J.F. Lenain (GRESE, Limoges) have published an article entitled A coherent picture for water at extreme negative pressure in the journal Nature Physics.  By studying water cavitation at negative pressure, this work constitues an advance on the phase diagram of water, still under debate. This article is amongst the most uploaded currently in  Nature Physics.