5 papers
Guided mechanical self-assembly of bubbles in fiber arrays
Marwan Chammouma, Manon Jouanlanne, Antoine Egelé +3
Spontaneous mechanical self-assembly of monodisperse bubbles generally leads to disordered foams at low density: producing crystalline structures such as Kelvin foams has proven to…
Elastic ribbons in bubble columns: when elasticity, capillarity and gravity govern equilibrium configurations
Jean Farago, Manon Jouanlanne, Antoine Egelé +1
Taking advantage of the competition between elasticity and capillarity has proven to be an efficient way to design structures by folding, bending, or assembling elastic objects in…
Elastocapillary deformation of thin elastic ribbons in 2D foam columns
Manon Jouanlanne, Antoine Egelé, Damien Favier +3
The ability of liquid interfaces to shape slender elastic structures provides powerful strategies to control the architecture of mechanical self assemblies. However, elastocapillar…
Spontaneous surface reserve formation in wicked membranes bestow extreme stretchability
Paul Grandgeorge, Natacha Krins, Aurélie Hourlier-Fargette +3
Soft stretchable materials are key for arising technologies such as stretchable electronics or batteries, smart textiles, biomedical devices, tissue engineering and soft robotics.…
Role of uncrosslinked chains in droplets dynamics on silicone elastomers
Aurélie Hourlier-Fargette, Arnaud Antkowiak, Antoine Chateauminois +1
We report an unexpected behavior in wetting dynamics on soft silicone substrates: the dynamics of aqueous droplets deposited on vertical plates of such elastomers exhibits two succ…