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News (2023)
November 2023: PhD of Hugo Bellezza Congratulation to Hugo who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Changes of salt solutions induced by humidity cycles in nanoporous media : evaporation, condensation, crystallization, and deliquescence".
October 2023: PhD of Aymeric Allemand Congratulation to Aymeric who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Bridging molecular and continuous nanofluidics: experiments, simulations and theory of direct and coupled electrokinetic transports".
October 2023: PhD of Louis Combe Congratulation to Louis who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Intermittent dynamics in a slowly sheared granular medium".
September 2023: Very cold water flows twice as well under pressure Publication in the Journal of Chemical Physics by Alexandre Mussa, Romain Berthelard, Frédéric Caupin and Bruno Issenmann who have measured the viscosity of supercooled water under pressure. See more.
September 2023: When bubbles chase drops Publication in Physcial Review Fluids by Christophe Pirat, Stella Ramos-Canut, Cécile Cottin-Bizonne together with Olivier Pierre-Louis from the MMCI team who have observed the effect of low pressure on a drop sitting on a super hydrophonic surface. See more.
July 2023: PhD of Adérito Fins-Carreira Congratulation to Adérito who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Active matter vs gravity: equation of state and effective capillarity in suspensions of self-propelled particles".
June 2023: Transport of water in a molecular monolayer Publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science by Aymeric Allemand, Menghua Zhao, Olivier Vincent, Rémy Fulcrand, Christophe Ybert and Anne-Laure Biance together with Laurent Joly from the MMCI team who have investigated transport in molecular-thick water films. See more.
News (2022)
July 2022: PhD of Yedhir Mezache Congratulation to Yedhir who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Level-set simulations of sheared 2D foams: influence of surfactant dynamics on foam rheology".
June 2022: HDR of Marie Le Merrer Congratulation to Marie who defended her "Habilitation à Diriger des Rercherches" entitled "Complex fluids and interfaces: foams, microgels, mineral suspensions".
January 2022: Marie Le Merrer on TV show "E=M6" What is the optimal method to clean up your windows? Check out the answer by Marie here (minutes 6-8).
News (2021)
December 2021: PhD defense of Akash Singh Congratulation to Akash who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Micromechanics of Gel Rupture".
November 2021: Frédéric Caupin distinguished by the Academy of Sciences Frédéric Caupin was awarded the "Prix Cécile de Witt-Morette/ecole des Houches" by the French Academy of Sciences.
November 2021: HDR of Mathieu Leocmach Congratulation to Mathieu who defended his "Habilitation à Diriger des Rercherches" entitled "Mechanics of arrested systems: from yoghourt to active matter".
July 2021: PhD defense of Clément Gouiller Congratulation to Clément who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Interfacial swimmers: dynamics, transport and dispersion".
February 2021: PhD defense of Leonel Stermann Congratulation to Leonel who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Micromechanics of Hydrogen Embrittlement of Aluminum Alloys".
News (2020)
December 2020: A pinch of salt to trigger electrical trapping Publication in Physical Review Letters by Cécile Cottin-Bizonne and Christophe Pirat, with colleagues from UK, of an article entitled "Reversible trapping of colloids in microgrooved channels via diffusiophoresis under steady-state solute gradients".
October 2020: PhD defense of Dolachai Boniface Congratulation to Dolachai who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Dynamics of interfacial swimmers".
September 2020: PhD defense of Natsuda Ong Klongvessa Congratulation to Ong who defended her PhD thesis entitled "Investigation of dense assemblies of self-propelled colloids: Collective behavior and rheological properties".
July 2020: PhD defense of Justin Pemeja Congratulation to Justin who defended his PhD thesis 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].
News (2019)
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 Congratulation to Emmanuel who defended his PhD thesis 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: City of Lyon award for Antoine Berut Congratulation to Antoine Berut (assistant professor in the team) who was awarded the 2019 Young Researcher Award of the Lyon Metropolis in the Science and Engineering category.
October 2019: PhD defense of Romain Berthelard Congratulation to Romain who defended his PhD thesis 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 Congratulation to Bahareh who defended her PhD thesis entitled "Surface reactivity of soft minerals at atomic scale".
News (2018)
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 who defended her PhD thesis 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 who defended his PhD thesis 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 who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Active matter and flows: bacterial jets and interfacial swimmers".
News (2017)
September 2017: PhD defense of Andrea Titta Congratulation to Andrea who defended his PhD thesis entitled "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!
News (2016)
July 2016: "WaterX: Exotic properties of water under extreme conditions" Frederic Caupin is organizing a STATPHYS satellite meeting entitled waterX. (July 13-16, Nice). 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).
February 2016: bubbles and drops break the symmetry Nicolas Bruot and Frédéric Caupin have published an article entitled "Curvature-dependence of the liquid-vapor surface tension beyond the Tolman approximation" in the journal Physical Review Letters.
January 2016: Franco-Brazilian chair awarded to Stella Ramos-Canut Stella Ramos-Canut has been awarded a Franco-Brazilian Chair in the State of Sao Paulo for her project on the stability mechanisms of interfaces in the super-repellent bi-functional surfaces. She will spend two months this summer at the University of the State of Sao Paulo.
News (2015)
October 2015: And yet it is flowing! Amine Dehaoui, Bruno Issenmann and Frédéric Caupin have published an article entitled "Viscosity of deeply supercooled water and its coupling to microscopic diffusion" in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.
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 UCBL/CNRS press release.
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.
News (2014)
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.
August 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 ENS Lyon, have published an article entitled "High frequency monitoring reveals aftershocks in subcritical crack growth" in the journal Physical Review Letters.
News (2013)
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 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.

News (2023)

November 2023: PhD of Hugo Bellezza

Congratulation to Hugo who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Changes of salt solutions induced by humidity cycles in nanoporous media : evaporation, condensation, crystallization, and deliquescence".

October 2023: PhD of Aymeric Allemand

Congratulation to Aymeric who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Bridging molecular and continuous nanofluidics: experiments, simulations and theory of direct and coupled electrokinetic transports".

October 2023: PhD of Louis Combe

Congratulation to Louis who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Intermittent dynamics in a slowly sheared granular medium".

September 2023: Very cold water flows twice as well under pressure

Publication in the Journal of Chemical Physics by Alexandre Mussa, Romain Berthelard, Frédéric Caupin and Bruno Issenmann who have measured the viscosity of supercooled water under pressure. See more.

September 2023: When bubbles chase drops

Publication in Physcial Review Fluids by Christophe Pirat, Stella Ramos-Canut, Cécile Cottin-Bizonne together with Olivier Pierre-Louis from the MMCI team who have observed the effect of low pressure on a drop sitting on a super hydrophonic surface. See more.

July 2023: PhD of Adérito Fins-Carreira

Congratulation to Adérito who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Active matter vs gravity: equation of state and effective capillarity in suspensions of self-propelled particles".

June 2023: Transport of water in a molecular monolayer

Publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science by Aymeric Allemand, Menghua Zhao, Olivier Vincent, Rémy Fulcrand, Christophe Ybert and Anne-Laure Biance together with Laurent Joly from the MMCI team who have investigated transport in molecular-thick water films. See more.

News (2022)

July 2022: PhD of Yedhir Mezache

Congratulation to Yedhir who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Level-set simulations of sheared 2D foams: influence of surfactant dynamics on foam rheology".

June 2022: HDR of Marie Le Merrer

Congratulation to Marie who defended her "Habilitation à Diriger des Rercherches" entitled "Complex fluids and interfaces: foams, microgels, mineral suspensions".

January 2022: Marie Le Merrer on TV show "E=M6"

What is the optimal method to clean up your windows? Check out the answer by Marie here (minutes 6-8).

News (2021)

December 2021: PhD defense of Akash Singh

Congratulation to Akash who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Micromechanics of Gel Rupture".

November 2021: Frédéric Caupin distinguished by the Academy of Sciences

Frédéric Caupin was awarded the "Prix Cécile de Witt-Morette/ecole des Houches" by the French Academy of Sciences.

November 2021: HDR of Mathieu Leocmach

Congratulation to Mathieu who defended his "Habilitation à Diriger des Rercherches" entitled "Mechanics of arrested systems: from yoghourt to active matter".

July 2021: PhD defense of Clément Gouiller

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

February 2021: PhD defense of Leonel Stermann

Congratulation to Leonel who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Micromechanics of Hydrogen Embrittlement of Aluminum Alloys".

News (2020)

December 2020: A pinch of salt to trigger electrical trapping

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

October 2020: PhD defense of Dolachai Boniface

Congratulation to Dolachai who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Dynamics of interfacial swimmers".

September 2020: PhD defense of Natsuda Ong Klongvessa

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

July 2020: PhD defense of Justin Pemeja

Congratulation to Justin who defended his PhD thesis 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].

News (2019)

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

Congratulation to Emmanuel who defended his PhD thesis 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: City of Lyon award for Antoine Berut

Congratulation to Antoine Berut (assistant professor in the team) who was awarded the 2019 Young Researcher Award of the Lyon Metropolis in the Science and Engineering category.

October 2019: PhD defense of Romain Berthelard

Congratulation to Romain who defended his PhD thesis 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

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

News (2018)

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 who defended her PhD thesis 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 who defended his PhD thesis 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 who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Active matter and flows: bacterial jets and interfacial swimmers".

News (2017)

September 2017: PhD defense of Andrea Titta

Congratulation to Andrea who defended his PhD thesis entitled "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!

News (2016)

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

Frederic Caupin is organizing a STATPHYS satellite meeting entitled waterX. (July 13-16, Nice). 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).

February 2016: bubbles and drops break the symmetry

Nicolas Bruot and Frédéric Caupin have published an article entitled "Curvature-dependence of the liquid-vapor surface tension beyond the Tolman approximation" in the journal Physical Review Letters.

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

Stella Ramos-Canut has been awarded a Franco-Brazilian Chair in the State of Sao Paulo for her project on the stability mechanisms of interfaces in the super-repellent bi-functional surfaces. She will spend two months this summer at the University of the State of Sao Paulo.

News (2015)

October 2015: And yet it is flowing!

Amine Dehaoui, Bruno Issenmann and Frédéric Caupin have published an article entitled "Viscosity of deeply supercooled water and its coupling to microscopic diffusion" in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

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 UCBL/CNRS press release.

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.

News (2014)

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.

August 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 ENS Lyon, have published an article entitled "High frequency monitoring reveals aftershocks in subcritical crack growth" in the journal Physical Review Letters.

News (2013)

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 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.