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Mechanics and energetics of electromembranes
Hadrien Bense, Benoît Roman, Bruno Andreotti
The recent discovery of electro-active polymers has shown great promises in the field of soft robotics, and was logically followed by experimental, numerical and theoretical develo…
The ping pong ball water cannon
Bruno Andreotti, Wladimir Toutain, Camille Noûs +3
The course "Phy Ex" was created by Yves Couder in the Paris VII university to teach experimental physics through projects. In this article, we present this teaching method through…
The charmed string: self-supporting loops through air drag
Adrian Daerr, Juliette Courson, Margaux Abello +2
The string shooter experiment uses counter-rotating pulleys to propel a closed string forward. Its steady state exhibits a transition from a gravity dominated regime at low velocit…
Spatial and temporal development of incipient dunes
Cyril Gadal, Clément Narteau, Ryan C. Ewing +4
In zones of loose sand, wind-blown sand dunes emerge due the linear instability of a flat sedimentary bed. This instability has been studied in experiments and numerical models but…
On the singular nature of the elastocapillary ridge
A. Pandey, B. Andreotti, S. Karpitschka +3
The functionality of soft interfaces is crucial to many applications in biology and surface science. Recent studies have used liquid drops to probe the surface mechanics of elastom…