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cond-mat.soft2019★ 17 cited

Effect of surface-active contaminants on radial thermocapillary flows

Thomas Bickel

We study the thermocapillary creeping flow induced by a thermal gradient at the liquid-air interface in the presence of insoluble surfactants (impurities). Convective sweeping of t…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 10 cited

A microscopic picture of erosion and sedimentation processes in dense granular flows

Pierre Soulard, Denis Dumont, Thomas Salez +2

Gravity-driven flows of granular matter are involved in a wide variety of situations, ranging from industrial processes to geophysical phenomena, such as avalanches or landslides.…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 12 cited

Lift induced by slip inhomogeneities in lubricated contacts

Aidan Rinehart, Uǧis L{ā}cis, Thomas Salez +1

Lubrication forces depend to a high degree on elasticity, texture, charge, chemistry, and temperature of the interacting surfaces. Therefore, by appropriately designing surface pro…

cond-mat.soft2019

Dynamic clustering and re-dispersion in concentrated colloid-active gel composites

G. Foffano, J. S. Lintuvuori, K. Stratford +2

We study the dynamics of quasi-two-dimensional concentrated suspensions of colloidal particles in active gels by computer simulations. Remarkably, we find that activity induces a d…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 15 cited

Hydrodynamic response of a surfactant-laden interface to a radial flow

T. Bickel, J. -C. Loudet, G. Koleski +1

We study the features of a radial Stokes flow due to a submerged jet directed toward a liquid-air interface. The presence of surface-active impurities confers to the interface an i…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 20 cited

Using Mw dependence of surface dynamics of glassy polymers to probe the length scale of free surface mobility

Yu Chai, Thomas Salez, James Forrest

We describe a series of surface levelling experiments in glassy polystyrene (PS) of varying molecular weight. The evolution through a mobile surface layer is described by the glass…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 49 cited

Direct Measurement of the Elastohydrodynamic Lift Force at the Nanoscale

Zaicheng Zhang, Vincent Bertin, Muhammad Arshad +3

We present the first direct measurement of the elastohydrodynamic lift force acting on a sphere moving within a viscous liquid, near and along a soft substrate under nanometric con…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 15 cited

Rapid Stabilization of Droplets by Particles in Microfluidics: Role of Droplet Formation

Laura Andreina Chacon Orellana, Jean-Christophe Baret

Droplet-based microfluidics has emerged as a powerful technology for the miniaturization and automation of biochemical assays. The replacement of surfactants by nanoparticles as in…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 12 cited

Gravity induced formation of spinners and polar order of spherical microswimmers on a surface

Zaiyi Shen, Juho S. Lintuvuori

We study numerically the hydrodynamics of a self-propelled particle system, consisting of spherical squirmers sedimented on a flat surface. We observe the emergence of dynamic stru…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 31 cited

Spreading dynamics of reactive surfactants driven by Marangoni convection

Thomas Bickel

We consider the spreading dynamics of some insoluble surface-active species along an aqueous interface. The model includes both diffusion, Marangoni convection and first-order reac…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 31 cited

Directing liquid crystalline self-organization of rod-like particles through tunable attractive single tips

Andrii Repula, Mariana Oshima Menegon, Cheng Wu +2

Dispersions of rodlike colloidal particles exhibit a plethora of liquid crystalline states, including nematic, smectic A, smectic B, and columnar phases. This phase behavior can be…

cond-mat.soft2019

Rod-Like Virus-Based Multiarm Colloidal Molecules

Alexis de la Cotte, Cheng Wu, Marie Trevisan +2

We report on the construction of multiarm colloidal molecules by tip-linking filamentous bacteriophages, functionalized either by biological engineering or chemical conjugation. Th…