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Interaction of vortex rings generated by two unsynchronised drop impacts
Anna A. L. Huttunen, Guilherme Moreira Bessa, Matilda Backholm
A liquid drop falling into a deep pool can create a vortex ring at the right impact conditions. Such drop-formed vortex rings are of importance in nature and technology and the dyn…
Living droplets with mesoscale swimmers
L. Malik, N. Sharadhi, C. Prêcheur Llarena +5
We study the activity of 'living' droplets, which confine tens of swimming meso-organisms in 3D using a superhydrophobic substrate. With few swimmers, the droplet oscillates at its…
Ultra-slow capillary rise on hydrogel surfaces
Anagha Datar, Joonas Ryssy, Aku O. Toivonen +1
Capillary rise occurs when a thin tube contacts a liquid, which rises against gravity due to the capillary force. This phenomenon is present in a wide range of everyday and industr…
Soft matter mechanics of immune cell aggregates
Shohreh Askari, Guillem Saldo Rubio, Anagha Datar +3
T-cells are a crucial subset of white blood cells that play a central role in the immune system. When T-cells bind antigens, it leads to cell activation and the induction of an imm…
Forces and symmetry breaking of a living meso-swimmer
Rafael A. Lara, N. Sharadhi, Anna A. L. Huttunen +4
Swimming is ubiquitous in nature and crucial for the survival of a wide range of organisms. The physics of swimming at the viscosity-dominated microscale and inertia-dominated macr…
Wetting of ferrofluids: phenomena and control
Mika Latikka, Matilda Backholm, Jaakko V. I. Timonen +1
Ferrofluids are liquids exhibiting remarkably strong response to magnetic fields, which leads to fascinating properties useful in various applications. Understanding the wetting pr…
Capillary levelling of a cylindrical hole in a viscous film
Matilda Backholm, Michael Benzaquen, Thomas Salez +2
The capillary levelling of cylindrical holes in viscous polystyrene films was studied using atomic force microscopy as well as quantitative analytical scaling arguments based on th…
Relaxation and Intermediate Asymptotics of a Rectangular Trench in a Viscous Film
Oliver Bäumchen, Michael Benzaquen, Thomas Salez +5
The surface of a thin liquid film with nonconstant curvature flattens as a result of capillary forces. While this leveling is driven by local curvature gradients, the global bounda…