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How to make and trap a pseudo-vesicle with a micropipette
Pierre Tapie, Alexis M. Prevost, Lorraine Montel +2
We present a simple method to produce giant lipid pseudo-vesicles (vesicles with an oily cap on the top), trapped in an agarose gel. The method can be implemented using only a regu…
Adhesion as a trigger of droplet polarization in flowing emulsions
Iaroslava Golovkova, Lorraine Montel, Franck Pan +4
Tissues are subjected to large external forces and undergo global deformations during morphogenesis. We use synthetic analogues of tissues to study the impact of cell-cell adhesion…
A bending fluctuation-based mechanism for particle detection by ciliated structures
Jean-Baptiste Thomazo, Benjamin Le Révérend, Léa-Laetitia Pontani +2
To mimic the mechanical response of passive biological cilia in complex fluids, we study the bending dynamics of an anchored elastic fiber submitted to a dilute granular suspension…
Collective stiffening of soft hair assemblies
Jean-Baptiste Thomazo, Eric Lauga, Benjamin Le Révérend +2
Many living systems use assemblies of soft and slender structures whose deflections allow them to mechanically probe their immediate environment. In this work, we study the collect…
Adhesive contact of model randomly rough rubber surfaces
Vito Acito, Michele Ciavarella, Alexis M Prevost +1
We study experimentally and theoretically the equilibrium adhesive contact between a smooth glass lens and a rough rubber surface textured with spherical microasperities with contr…
Non-Amontons-Coulomb local friction law of randomly rough contact interfaces with rubber
D. T. Nguyen, E. Wandersman, A. Prevost +3
We report on measurements of the local friction law at a multi-contact interface formed between a smooth rubber and statistically rough glass lenses, under steady state friction. U…