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Microbial narrow-escape is facilitated by wall interactions
Mathieu Souzy, Antoine Allard, Jean-François Louf +3
Cells have evolved efficient strategies to probe their surroundings and navigate through complex environments. From metastatic spread in the body to swimming cells in porous materi…
Elastocapillary network model of inhalation
Jean-François Louf, Felix Kratz, Sujit S. Datta
The seemingly simple process of inhalation relies on a complex interplay between muscular contraction in the thorax, elasto-capillary interactions in individual lung branches, prop…
Imbibition in plant seeds
Jean-François Louf, Yi Zheng, Aradhana Kumar +5
We describe imbibition in real and artificial plant seeds, using a combination of experiments and theory. In both systems, our experiments demonstrate that liquid permeates the sub…