Search Results - "Ybert, C."
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Aggregation-fragmentation and individual dynamics of active clusters
Published in Nature communications (15-02-2018)“…A remarkable feature of active matter is the propensity to self-organize. One striking instance of this ability to generate spatial structures is the cluster…”
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Dynamic clustering in active colloidal suspensions with chemical signaling
Published in Physical review letters (29-06-2012)“…In this Letter, we explore experimentally the phase behavior of a dense active suspension of self-propelled colloids. In addition to a solidlike and gaslike…”
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Osmotic flow through fully permeable nanochannels
Published in Physical review letters (19-06-2014)“…Osmosis across membranes is intrinsically associated with the concept of semipermeability. Here, however, we demonstrate that osmotic flow can be generated by…”
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Boosting migration of large particles by solute contrasts
Published in Nature materials (01-10-2008)“…Brownian diffusion is a keystone concept in a large variety of domains, from physics, chemistry to biology. Diffusive transport controls situations as diverse…”
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Probing the nanohydrodynamics at liquid-solid interfaces using thermal motion
Published in Physical review letters (03-02-2006)“…We report on a new method to characterize nanohydrodynamic properties at the liquid-solid interface relying solely on the measurement of the thermal motion of…”
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Nanoscale Dynamics versus Surface Interactions: What Dictates Osmotic Transport?
Published in The journal of physical chemistry letters (19-01-2017)“…The classical paradigm for osmotic transport has long related the induced-flow direction to the solute membrane interactions, with the low-to-high…”
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Slippage of water past superhydrophobic carbon nanotube forests in microchannels
Published in Physical review letters (13-10-2006)“…We present in this Letter an experimental characterization of liquid flow slippage over superhydrophobic surfaces made of carbon nanotube forests, incorporated…”
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Optimal run-and-tumble in slit-like confinement
Published in Physical review research (01-04-2024)“…Run-and-tumble is a basic model of persistent motion and a motility strategy widespread in micro-organisms and individual cells. In many natural settings,…”
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Chaotic mixing in effective compressible flows
Published in Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics (01-07-2014)“…We study numerically joint mixing of salt and colloids by chaotic advection and how salt inhomogeneities accelerate or delay colloid mixing by inducing a…”
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Osmotic manipulation of particles for microfluidic applications
Published in New journal of physics (31-07-2009)“…Diffusiophoresis, i.e. the movement of macromolecules along a molecular gradient, is shown to be an efficient means to drive particles in microchannels. By…”
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Contact angle measurements on superhydrophobic carbon nanotube forests: Effect of fluid pressure
Published in Europhysics letters (01-07-2005)“…In this paper the effect of pressure on the contact angle of a water drop on superhydrophobic carbon nanotube (CNT) forests is studied. Superhydrophobic CNT…”
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Using surface force apparatus, diffusion and velocimetry to measure slip lengths
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences (28-04-2008)“…Determining the slip lengths for liquids flowing close to smooth walls is challenging. The reason lies in the fact that the scales that must be addressed range…”
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Electrically induced flows in the vicinity of a dielectric stripe on a conducting plane
Published in The European physical journal. E, Soft matter and biological physics (01-11-2002)“…We report a theoretical and experimental study of the hydrodynamic flow induced by an a.c. electric field in the vicinity of a dielectric stripe deposited on a…”
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Dynamics of Fakir Liquids: from Slip to Splash
Published in Journal of adhesion science and technology (01-01-2008)“…Superhydrophobic surfaces, associated with the so-called Lotus effect, have attracted numerous studies in the past few years, originally motivated by their…”
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Structural study of the liquid-crystal analog of the vortex liquid phase in type-II superconductors
Published in Europhysics letters (01-09-2003)“…We propose a high-resolution X-ray study of the twisted liquid crystalline phase appearing between the Twist Grain Boundary smectic A phase (TGBA) and the…”
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Ascending air bubbles in protein solutions
Published in The European physical journal. B, Condensed matter physics (01-08-1998)“…We report measurements of the ascending velocity of air bubbles in protein (bovine serum al-bumin) solutions. We show that, because of the protein molecules…”
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Shear viscosity of polymer and surfactant monolayers
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Electrically induced microflows probed by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
Published in The European physical journal. E, Soft matter and biological physics (01-03-2005)“…We report on the experimental characterisation of electrically induced flows at the micrometer scale through Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS)…”
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Wetting controls separation of inertial flows from solid surfaces
Published in Physical review letters (26-02-2010)“…We investigate the flow of liquids around solid surfaces in the inertial regime, a situation commonly encountered with the so-called "teapot effect", the…”
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