News & Events
This is a somewhat incomplete overview of past news/ group life and scientiifc aspects.
3.2022 A somewhat unusual cover of a journal featuring Mariana's work : Variations in human saliva viscoelasticity affect aerosolization propensity - featuring on the cover of Soft Matter (RSC)
03.2022 Martin Hofmann's pioneer fellowship featured on the home page of the ETH - read the story here
03.2022 Congratulations to Hyorin Nam from SNU korea for obtaining a Swiss Excellence fellowship. She will be joining the group in Summer. Thanks to SERI for the support!
03.2022 New paper: use flow to structure materials! Structuring Hydrogel Cross-Link Density Using Hierarchical Filament 3D Printing
Alexandra V. Bayles, Tazio Pleij, Martin Hofmann, Fabian Hauf, Theo Tervoort, and Jan Vermant, external page ACS materials and interfaces
02.2022 Congratulations to Alexandra Alicke, who a few months afte her doctoral defense landed an assistant professorship at TU Einhoven. She will from now on be known as Prof.Dr.Alicke.
01.2022 New paper : rheology plays a role in disease transmission : Variations in human saliva viscoelasticity affect aerosolization propensity, Mariana Rodríguez-Hakim, Linard Räza and Jan Vermant external page Soft Matter 2022,18, 2528-2540
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04.2021 Dynamic stabilisation during the drainage of thin film polymer solutions, E Chatzigiannakis, J Vermant Soft Matter, 2021
04.2021 Paper with Han Meijer on advective processin and how to create structures by unti operations in flow; - One‐step creation of hierarchical fractal structures PE Neerincx, M Hofmann, O Gorodetskyi, K Feldman, J Vermant, H. Meijer Polymer Engineering & Science Volume 61, Issue4 Special Issue: In Honor of Professor Christopher W. Macosko Pages 1257-1269.
04.2021 Proud of the review paper with Nick JAensson and Partick Anderson: Computational interfacial rheology
NO Jaensson, PD Anderson, J Vermant, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 104507 Volume 290, A2021
03.2021 Thin Liquid Films: where Hydrodynamics, Capillarity, Surface Stresses, and Intermolecular Forces meet
E Chatzigiannakis, N Jaensson, J Vermant Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 101441
02.2021 Alexandra's labour of love and a great collaboration with S.Simon and J. Sjoblom at NTNU : Assessing the Interfacial Activity of Insoluble Asphaltene Layers: Interfacial Rheology versus Interfacial Tension, A Alicke, S Simon, J Sjöblom, J Vermant, Langmuir (2021)
01.2021 Stretch, fold and break : intensification of emulsification of high viscosity ratio systems by fractal mixers, Martin Hofmannn
Alexandra Bayles, Jan Vermant, AIChE journal , (2021)
01.2021 New paper : Hydrodyanmics at work during bread baking ? - Thin film drainage dynamics of wheat and rye dough liquors and oat batter liquor, F Janssen, A Wouters, E Chatzigiannakis, J Delcour, J Vermant, Food Hydrocolloids (2021)
10.2020 New paper on thin film break up: Chatzigiannakis, Emmanouil, and Jan Vermant. "Breakup of Thin Liquid Films: From Stochastic to Deterministic." Physical Review Letters 125, no. 15 (2020): 158001.
10.2020 New paper : Vutukuri, Hanumantha Rao, Masoud Hoore, Clara Abaurrea-Velasco, Lennard van Buren, Alessandro Dutto, Thorsten Auth, Dmitry A. Fedosov, Gerhard Gompper, and Jan Vermant. "Active particles induce large shape deformations in giant lipid vesicles." Nature 586, no. 7827 (2020): 52-56. see also ETH NEWS : How local forces deform membranes
09.2020 Chatzigiannakis, Emmanouil, Peter Veenstra, Dick Ten Bosch, and Jan Vermant. "Mimicking coalescence using a pressure-controlled dynamic thin film balance." Soft Matter (2020) in press
08.2020 Collaboration of Nick with the ISA group : Dietrich, K., Jaensson, N., Buttinoni, I., Volpe, G. and Isa, L., 2020. Microscale Marangoni Surfers,Physical Review Letters 125, 098001 featured in physics news https://physics.aps.org/articles/v13/s110
07.2020 Vutukuri, H.R., Lisicki, M., Lauga, E. and Vermant, J., 2020. Light-switchable propulsion of active particles with reversible interactions. Nature communications, 11(1), 2628
05.2020 the role of interfacial rheology in breadmaking? Janssen, F., Wouters, A.G., Linclau, L., Waelkens, E., Derua, R., Dehairs, J., Moldenaers, P., Vermant, J. and Delcour, J.A., 2020. The role of lipids in determining the air-water interfacial properties of wheat, rye, and oat dough liquor constituents. Food Chemistry, p.126565 and Janssen, Frederik, Arno GB Wouters, Yannick Meeus, Paula Moldenaers, Jan Vermant, and Jan A. Delcour. "The role of non-starch polysaccharides in determining the air-water interfacial properties of wheat, rye, and oat dough liquor constituents." Food Hydrocolloids 105 (2020): 105771.
01.2020 New paper - when can interfacial rheological data be trusted - Renggli, D., Alicke, A., Ewoldt, R.H. and Vermant, J., 2020. Operating windows for oscillatory interfacial shear rheology. Journal of Rheology, 64(1), pp.141-160.
01.2020 New paper by Roberta on stronger gels in viscoelasic matrices :: R. Massaro,G. Colomobo, P. Van Puyvelde and J. vermant, Viscoelastic cluster densification in sheared colloidal gels https://doi.org/10.1039/C9SM02368B
11.2019 Scherz, Leon F., Bram Schroyen, Martina Pepicelli, Dieter A. Schlüter, Jan Vermant, and Dimitris Vlassopoulos. "Molecularly Designed Interfacial Viscoelasticity by Dendronized Polymers: from Flexible Macromolecules to Colloidal Objects." ACS nano 13, 12, 14217-14229 (2019).
11.2019 Experimental techniques : review by bram : Bulk rheometry at high frequencies: a review of experimental approaches, Bram Schroyen, Dimitris Vlassopoulos, Peter Van Puyvelde, Jan Vermant Rheologica Acta,59, pages1–22(2020)
10.2019 Experimental techniques : read about the design of a fast rheo-confocal : Colombo, Gabriele, Roberta Massaro, Steven Coleman, Jörg Läuger, Peter Van Puyvelde, and Jan Vermant. "Ultrafast imaging of soft materials during shear flow." Korea-Australia Rheology Journal 31, no. 4 (2019): 229-240.
08.2019 New paper wit Ewoldt group at UIUC about the notion of "materials design in soft matter": Nelson, A. Z., Schweizer, K. S., Rauzan, B. M., Nuzzo, R. G., Vermant, J., & Ewoldt, R. H. (2019). Designing and transforming yield-stress fluids. Curr. Opin. Solid State and Materials Science. 23 (5), 100758 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cossms.2019.06.002
07.2019 We showed the Boltzman superposition works for dilatation : Pepicelli, Martina, Nick Jaensson, Corentin Tregouët, Bram Schroyen, Alexandra Alicke, Theo Tervoort, Cécile Monteux, and Jan Vermant. "Surface viscoelasticity in model polymer multilayers: From planar interfaces to rising bubbles." Journal of Rheology 63, no. 5 (2019): 815-828.
07.2019 another superposition paper: Flow dynamics of concentrated starlike micelles: A superposition rheometry investigation into relaxation mechanisms AR Jacob, AS Poulos, AN Semenov, J Vermant, G Petekidis Journal of Rheology 63 (4), 641-653
06.2019 Congratulations to both Dr. André Brem and Dr. Gabriele Colombe for a succesful PhD defense
06.2019 New paper joint with ISA group: Stress Contributions in Colloidal Suspensions: The Smooth, the Rough, and the Hairy - Bram Schroyen, Chiao-Peng Hsu, Lucio Isa, Peter Van Puyvelde, and Jan Vermant, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 218001 (2019) -
06.2019 New paper: how do antibubbles come to die? - Youen Vitry, Stéphane Dorbolo, Jan Vermant, Benoit Scheid,
Controlling the lifetime of antibubbles, Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2019, Volume 270, August 2019, Pages 73-86
05.2019 New paper: Rheometry - Do rough geometries prevent slip or induce some? Rough geometries with viscoelastic Boger fluids: Predicting the apparent wall slip with a porous medium approach Paduano,Liana P. , Schweizer,Thomas , Carotenuto,Claudia Vermant,Jan
Minale,Mario, Journal of Rheology 63, 569 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1122/1.5093288
05. 2019 New Paper: Orthogonal superposition rheometry of model colloidal glasses with short-ranged attractions
Esmaeel Moghimi, Jan Vermant, and George Petekidis Journal of Rheology 63, 533 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1122/1.5080717
03.2019 Congratulations to Roman Wyss for his succesfull doctoral thesis defence
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3.2019 cover article Effects of particle stiffness on the extensional rheology of model rod-like nanoparticle suspensions
Christian Lang, Jan Hendricks, Zhenkun Zhang, Naveen K. Reddy, Jonathan P. Rothstein, M.P. Lettinga, Jan Vermant and Christian Clasen
Soft Matter, vol. 15: no. 5, pp. 833-841, 2019 (external page DOI: 10.1039/c8sm01925h) open access.
02.2019 We are happy to announce that Prof. Jan Vermant has been awarded the 2019 Weissenberg Award! This award was created in 1997 by the European Society of Rheology (ESR). More information can be found on the website of the ESR.
12.2018 New Paper: Electrically conductive thin films derived from bulk graphite and liquid-liquid interface assembly, V. Blair, K. Celebi, J. Vermant, Advanced materials interfaces, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.201801570 (open access)
12.2018 New paper (with the Complex Materials group at ETH): Dockx G, Geisel S, Moore DG, Koos E, Studart AR, Vermant J. Designer liquid-liquid interfaces made from transient double emulsions. Nature Communications, volume 9, article number: 4763 (2018). DOI: external page 10.1038/s41467-018-07272-0 see also ETH NEWS
11.2018 New paper: Interfacial Fourier Transform Shear Rheometry of Complex Fluid Interfaces,
Christopher O. Klein, Antigoni Theodoratou, Patrick A. Rühs, Ulrich Jonas, Benoit Loppinet, Manfred Wilhelm, Peter Fischer, Jan Vermant, Dimitris Vlassopoulos, external page Rheologica Acta (2019)
11.2018 New paper Nick Jaensson and Jan Vermant. "Tensiometry and rheology of complex interfaces." Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science (2018). Volume 37, September 2018, Pages 136-150
10.2018 New paper (with Polymer physics group at ETH) Self-assembly of ellipsoidal particles at fluid-fluid interfaces with an empirical pair potentialAM Luo, J Vermant, P Ilg, Z Zhang, LMC Sagis Journal of colloid and interface science 534, 205-214 (2019)
09.2018 New publication in Nature (with the Complex Materials group at ETH): S. Gantenbein, K. Masania, W. Woigk, J. Sesseg, T. Tervoort & A. Studart, Nature, 561, 226–230 (2018)
06.2018 Congratulations to Dr. Barbara Gold for winning the Excellence Prize of Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany). The annual award is based on an outstanding doctoral thesis combined with excellent achievements during a subsequent postdoc phase.
06.2018 Congratulations to Nick Jaensson for the Walters Prize of the JNNFM for 2017
06.2018 New papers on graphene sheets during flow Reddy, N., Natale, G., Prud'homme, R. K., & Vermant, J. (2018). Rheo-optical Analysis of Functionalised Graphene Suspensions. Langmuir and Natale, G ; Reddy, N., Prud'homme, R. K., & Vermant, J. Orientation dynamics of dilute functionalized graphene suspensions in oscillatory flow. Phys. Rev. Fluids.
06.2018 Jan Vermant named outstanding reviewer of Soft Matter for 2nd year in a row - see Grizzuti, Nino, et al. "Outstanding Reviewers for Soft Matter in 2017." Soft matter 14.17 (2018): 3220-3220.
06.2018 New paper : Beltramo, P. J., Scheidegger, L., & Vermant, J. (2018). Towards realistic large area cell membrane mimics: Excluding oil, controlling composition and including ion channels. Langmuir 34, 20, 5880-5888
05.2018 Congratulations ot Bram Schroyen who won the award for best oral presentation given at AERC 2018 by a student, on topics of potential industrial interest at the AERC in Sorrento for a presentation on high frequency rheology of soft, hard and rough colloids.
10.2017 paper : Bram Schroyen, James Swan, Peter Van Puyvelde and Jan Vermant, Quantifying the dispersion quality of partially aggregated colloidal dispersions by high frequency rheology, external page Soft Matter ,13, 7897-7906 (2017) doi 10.1039/C7SM01690E High frequency rheology to obtain a dispersion quality index.
08.2017 paper Beltramo, P. J., Gupta, M., Alicke, A., Liascukiene, I., Gunes, D. Z., Baroud, C. N., & Vermant, J. (2017). Arresting dissolution by interfacial rheology design. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017, 10373–10378, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1705181114, see also ETH news item " A dream of Foam"
08.2017 Softie to take up professor position Congratulations to Peter Beltramo, postdoc in our group, for acepting a position as Assistant Professor of chemical engineering at the University of Massachussets, starting 01.2018. Congrats prof. Peter!
05.17 Soft matter interfaces: from biology to engineering applications in the fantastic conference center of the ETH domain in Monte Verita, 2017, 5.11-10.11, organized by the Soft Materials group in collaboration with other groups at ETH Zurich!
07.17. From Drop-Shape Analysis to Stress-Fitting Elastometry, M. Nagel, T. Tervoort, J. Vermant, Advances in Colloid and Interface Science the code described in this paper is available at http://tensiomet.sourceforge.net/
07.17 Characterization and modelling of Langmuir interfaces with finite elasticity, Martina Pepicelli, Tom Verwijlen, Theo A. Tervoort, and Jan Vermant, Soft Matter, 2017,13, 5977-5990
07.17 paper : Superposition Rheology and Anisotropy in Rheological Properties of Sheared Colloidal Gels, G. Colombe, S. Kim, B. Schroyen, T. Schweizer, C. Clasen, J. Mewis, J. Vermant external page Journal of Rheology: Surprising mechanical anisotropy in
05.17 New paper: nice collaboration between postdocs of the complex and softmaterials groups: Colloidal Switches by Electric and Magnetic Fields, Ahmet Demirors, Peter. J. Beltramo and H. Rao Vutukuri, external page ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2017, 9 (20), pp 17238–17244
04.17 New paper: Interfacial Rheology of Sterically Stabilized Colloids at Liquid Interfaces and Its Effect on the Stability of Pickering Emulsions. Rob van Hooghten, Victoria E. Blair, Anja Vananroye, Andrew B. Schoffield, Jan Vermant, and Job H.J. Thijssen external page Langmuir, 33, 4107-4118 (2017)
03.17 New paper: Adsorption of Ellipsoidal Particles at Liquid–Liquid Interfaces. Stijn Coertjens, Raf de Dier, Paula Moldenaers, Lucio Isa, and Jan Vermant, external page Langmuir, 33, 2689-1697 (2017)
01.17 New paper: Fibrin structural and diffusional analysis suggests that fibers are permeable to solute transport, external page Acta Biomaterialia, KA Leonidakis, P Bhattacharya, J Patterson, BE Vos, GH Koenderink, Jan Vermant, Dennis Lambrechts, Maarten Roeffaers, Hans Van Oosterwyck, (2017) doi: external page 10.1016/j.actbio.2016.09.044
01.17 New paper: A versatile subphase exchange cell for interfacial shear rheology Schroyen, B., Gunes, D.Z. & Vermant, J. external page Rheol Acta (2017). doi:10.1007/s00397-016-0976-x
November 2016
New paper : Simple Optical Imaging of Nanoscale Features in Free-Standing Films PJ Beltramo, J Vermant external page ACS Omega 1 (3), 363-370 (2016)
New paper / On the cover : From near hard spheres to surfboards, Ljiljana Palangetic, Kirill Feldman, Raphael Schaller, Romana Kalt, Walter R. Caseri, and Jan Vermant, external page Faraday Discussions, 191, 325-349 10.1039/C6FD00052E (2016).
New paper / On the cover Millimeter-area, free standing, phospholipid bilayers Peter Beltramo, Rob Van Hooghten and Jan Vermant, external page Soft Matter 10.1039/C6SM00250A (2016)
New paper: High-performance liquid-crystalline polymer films for monolithic “composites.” Schaller, R., Peijs, T., & Tervoort, T. A. (2016). external page Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 81, 296–304
September 2016
Prof. Jan Vermant was awarded the 2016 Onsager Professorship at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and received the Onsager medal on September 26 th in Trondheim.
Prof Vermant was also elected as a external page fellow of the Society of Rheology (US), class of 2016.
New paper / On the cover : On clarification of haze in polypropylene. Bernland, K., Goossens, J. G. P., Smith, P., & Tervoort, T. A. (2016). external page Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, 54(9), 865–874.
New paper: Limiting coalescence by interfacial rheology: over-compressed polyglycerol ester layers M Gupta, R Van Hooghten, P Fischer, DZ Gunes, J Vermant external page Rheologica Acta, Volume 55 (7) pp 537-546 (2016), doi : 10.1007/s00397-016-0934-7
New paper: Simple microfluidic stagnation point flow geometries, Dockx, g. Verwijlen T, Sempels W., Nagel M., Moldenaers, P, hofkens J. Vermant J, Biomicrofluidics 10, 043506 (2016); (2016)
Two "Softiez" take up professor positions: congratulations to to external page Joseph Samaniuk (postdoc-2014-1016) for his appointment as Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines and to Naveen Reddy (former PhD student of Prof. Vermant) will become assistant professor at the university of Hasselt (B).
Stijn Coertjens succesfully defended his PhD thesis and joined external page Avery Dennison
Three days of soft matter (30-31/04, 01-04): we hosted (together with the ISA group) the Swiss soft matter days, and ogethether wth the food process engineering group we hosted the 20th anniversary symposium jointly between the european society of rheology and Softcomp of the symposium "Can rheology save the world?" including the graduate student workshop "From Mud to Blood - Did rheology became less dirty?" on March 31 to April 1, 2016 at ETH Zurich. (http://www.fpe.ethz.ch/esr2016.html)
New paper: Semifluorinated Alkanes at the Air Water Interface : Taloring structure and rheology at the molecular scale, A. Theodoratou et al., external page Langmuir, 2016, 32 (13), pp 3139–3151 DOI 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b04744 (2016)
New Paper: Sorption and Interfacial Rheology study of model asphaltene compounds, Pradilla D., Simon S., Samaniuk J., Skrzypiec M, Vermant, J. external page Langmuir, 32 (12), pp 2900–291 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b00195 (2016)
New Paper: Acoustic trapping of active matter" by Sho Takatori, Raf De Dier, Jan Vermant, and John Brady, external page Nature Communications (2016)
Confinement of living microorganisms and self-propelled particles by an external trap provides a means of analysing the motion and behaviour of active systems. Developing a tweezer with a trapping radius large compared with the swimmers’ size and run length has been an experimental challenge, as standard optical traps are too weak. Here we report the novel use of an acoustic tweezer to confine self-propelled particles in two dimensions over distances large compared with the swimmers’ run length. We develop a near-harmonic trap to demonstrate the crossover from weak confinement, where the probability density is Boltzmann-like, to strong confinement, where the density is peaked along the perimeter.
At high concentrations the swimmers crystallize into a close-packed structure, which subsequently ‘explodes’ as a travelling wave when the tweezer is turned off. The swimmers’ confined motion provide the very first measurement of the swim pressure, a unique mechanical pressure exerted by self-propelled bodies.
New Paper : Keshavarz, Masoumeh, et al. "Nanoscale Study of Polymer Dynamics." ACS Nano ; 10(1):1434-41 (2016) external page doi: 10.1021/acsnano.5b06931
PhD defense : Raf de dier defended his thesis on January 21st at KU Leuven and graduated maxima cum laude. Congratulations. He will Join Johnson and Johnson in Schafhausen.
New Paper: Researchers at the Polymer Technology and our group have discovered that vegetable oils can be used to improve strong plastic fibres. See the paper by Schaller et al in Mexternal page acromolecules. Also see the feature in external page Chemical & Engineering News and in external page The economist.
New paper: Convective cage release in model colloidal glasses, Alan R. Jacob, Andreas S. Poulos, Sunhyung Kim, Jan Vermant, and George Petekidis, Physical Review Letters, 115, 210403 (2015)
This paper uses superposition rheology and LB simulations to elucidate the mechanisms by which glasses flow.
2015,11, 8021-8021 On the COVER: Our article Lung surfactants and different contributions to thin film stability, by Eline Hermans, M. Saad Bhamla, Peter Kao, Gerald G. Fuller, and Jan Vermant, Soft Matter, 2015, DOI: 10.1039/C5SM01603G appeatred on the cover of soft matter
SOft matter joined the Marie-Curie network external page ITNSomatai. Somatai stands for “Soft Matter at Aqueous Interfaces”. It is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN), which is financed by the EU’s 7th Framework Programme
New Paper: Predicting the apparent wall slip when using roughened geometries: A porous medium approach Claudia Carotenuto, Anja Vananroye, Jan Vermant, and Mario Minale Journal of rheology, 59.5 (2015): 1131-1149 external page DOI:10.1122/1.4923405
6-8/07/2015 Soft Materials organized a suspension rheology short course, by prof.em. J. Mewis (KU Leuven) and Prof. N. Wagner (Un. Delaware) organized by the Soft Materials laboratory as a MaP event, it attracted about 50 particpants from within 6 different departments at ETH.
23/06/2015 Wouter Sempels (co-advised by J. Vermant and J. Hofkens) succesfuly defended his thesis at KU Leuven - congratulations! Wouter will join the Softiez in the fall as an academic guest.
Award : congratulations to Dr. Mathias Nagel, currently postdoctoral researcher at the Soft Materials laboratory, for getting the 2015 "Prix Ryhming" for his doctoral thesis work at EPFL.
New paper : Langmuir monolayer characterization via polymer microtensiometers by Gijsenbergh, Pieter and Pepicelli, Martina and Wirth, Christopher L. and Vermant, J. and Puers, Robert, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 229, 110-117, 2015, external page doi:10.1016/j.sna.2015.03.041
23/04/2015 - Seminar - Prof. Jan Dhont, FZ-Jülich, “Colloids in external fields: electric-field induced transitions and shear-induced instabilities” HCI G 574 at 16H00
25/03/2015 - Seminar, Dr. J.F. Berret, Matière et Systèmes Complexes, Université Paris 7 "Denis Diderot" -16h00 in H. HCI G 574
02/03/2015 - PhD Defense - Sylvie Van Loon, at KU Leuven (promotor), Prof. J. Vermant, Prof. C. Clasen, Prof. J. Fransaer, directed self-assembly of microparticles in flowing viscoelastic fluids.
2014
19/12/2014 - PhD Defense - Eline Hermans, at KU Leuven (promotor), Prof. J. Vermant : Interfacial dynamics of phopholipids and Lung Surfactant.
15/10/2014 - New paper : Thermocapillary Fingering in Surfactant-Laden Water Droplets, Raf De Dier, Wouter Sempels, Johan Hofkens, and Jan Vermant - Langmuir (2014) DOI: 10.1021/la503655j
15/10/2014 - New book chapter: The Role of Biosurfactants in Bacterial Systems De Dier, Raf, Fuavart, Maarten, Michiels, Jan and VErmant, Jan in The Physical Basis of Bacterial Quorum Communication, S. hagen (Ed), Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering 2015, pp 189-204, Springer.
13.10.2014 ETH inaugural lecture; Prof. Vermant - Soft Materials: where physics, chemistry and biology meet engineering
30.09.2014 Seminar B. Scheid (ULB, Belgium) - Role of interfacial elasticity in thin film flows (dip coating and soap films).
26.09.2014 Seminar by Prof. Todd. Squires (UCSB, USA) : Sculpting chemical environments to drive particle migration, then teaching particles to do so themselves HCI J574
19.09.2014 The Laboratory of Soft Materials became member of SOFTCOMP. external page Softcomp was born as a Network of Excellence (NoE) supported by the EU aiming to establish a knowledge base for an intelligent design of functional and nanoscale soft matter composites. It now has a durable structure organized as a Consortium, which is self-financed by the partners.
http://www.eu-softcomp.net/
18.09.2014 Seminar by Dr. J. Crassous, Physical Chemistry at Lund University, "Supracolloidal self-assembly of composite microgels” H507
26.08.2014 Seminar : Mathias Nagel (EPFL) Modeling droplets flowing in Microchannels - H507.
01/09/2014 - New paper :
Samaniuk J, Vermant J., Micro and macrorheology at fluid-fluid interfaces. Soft Matter. 2014;10(36):7023-33. external page doi: 10.1039/c4sm00646;.