4 papers
Microparticle Brownian Motion near an Air-Water Interface Governed by Direction-Dependent Boundary Conditions
Stefano Villa, Christophe Blanc, Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider +2
Although the dynamics of colloids in the vicinity of a solid interface has been widely characterized in the past, experimental studies of Brownian diffusion close to an air-water i…
Helfrich-Hurault elastic instabilities driven by geometrical frustration
Christophe Blanc, Guillaume Durey, Randall D. Kamien +3
The Helfrich-Hurault (HH) elastic instability is a well-known mechanism behind patterns that form as a result of strain upon liquid crystal systems with periodic ground states. In…
The Universality of Thermal Transport in Amorphous Nanowires at Low Temperatures
Adib Tavakoli, Christophe Blanc, Hossein Ftouni +4
Thermal transport properties of amorphous materials at low temperatures are governed by the interaction between phonons and localized excitations referred to as tunneling two level…
Reduction of phonon mean free path: from low temperature physics to room temperature applications in thermoelectricity
Olivier Bourgeois, Dimitri Tainoff, Adib Tavakoli +5
It has been proposed for a long time now that the reduction of the thermal conductivity by reducing the phonon mean free path is one of the best way to improve the current performa…