Liquids&Elasticity LAB @Princeton

Shoutout to the folks at Polytechnique (Montréal & Palaiseau) for their work just out in @Nature on how kirigami principles✂️ can be applied to make parachutes 🪂

Mucus films cover lung airways, but when do they block them? Beyond thickness and volume, intermediate films develop humps whose sliding and nonlinear growth can robustly form plugs, independent of gravity and ciliary transport. Read more at go.aps.org/4mLcKZG

I am teaching Intro to Robotics again at @Princeton. New this year: final project where students use imitation learning to make drones navigate! Starter code will be publicly available. All other course materials (lecture videos, notes, etc.) from F'22: short-link.me/1cXr8

Happy to share our last paper 👉 nature.com/articles/s4146… where we show how beads can turn flexible fiber networks into load-bearing structures. Fun to build, tricky to crack—these metamaterials keep you on your toes! (literally) @LaurenDreier @Trev_J_Jones

More on collective behavior: Our new Annual Review of Biophysics piece - with the stellar Danielle Chase - explores how animals sense, share information, and make group decisions. In honeybees and beyond 🐝 annualreviews.org/content/journa…

Inspired by biological growth, scientists have developed a 3D printing method that ''grows'' objects from liquid resin using a self-propelling chemical reaction. This approach enables the creation of beautiful, complex shapes like this helical horn. 👉 ow.ly/IzkX50VXVch

Are you interested in a postdoc in fluid mechanics/ 3d printing/ soft robotics/ active matter... This call might be for you …sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/postdo… Reach out if interested, I am now in Belgium @KU_Leuven

Critical-like behavior in foam dynamics: Transition from slip to scraping, Masaya Endo and Rei Kurita #SoftMatter go.aps.org/4iUdw4H

Augmented snap-through instability of folded strips, Tom Marzin, Barath Venkateswaran, Thomas Baroux, and P.-T. Brun #Materials go.aps.org/3DN0RRO

Our article on the junction of slender objects under tension has just been published @ESPCI_Paris! We discuss a cool phenomenon found in numerous systems, from kirigamis, kuttsukigami, and inflatables to more traditional tearing and peeling pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Advertisement for an advanced course in Udine, Italy 🇮🇹 this summer ☀️. Learn about mechanics for the fabrication and programming of soft robots 🦑. cism.it/en/activities/… organized along with @biosoftact

Using propulsion systems like bows and spearthrowers, researchers have found that flexible, weighted-tip projectiles that wobble when thrown can achieve a kinetic energy gain of 160% over rigid ones. Read the paper in Physical Review E: go.aps.org/4hcv9vv

Explore human-AI interactions in virtual reality at @the_leonardo in Salt Lake City, UT. It’s part of “Spiraling Upwards,” the traveling exhibit organized by @apsfluiddynamic. The exhibit closes Jan. 31: go.aps.org/3OPCTa9 📷 Hyun Cho

Our paper on multi-DOF origami metamaterials has been published in Physical Review Research Imada and Tachi "Maxwell origami tube." doi.org/10.1103/PhysRe…

Researchers have devised a simplified description of the mechanical properties of intertwined materials. The work could have implications for the development of a wide variety of materials, from conventional clothing to smart textiles and soft robotics. go.aps.org/3BBcmub

Fresh off the press @NatureComms, our work on wing deployment in Drosophila 🪰: nature.com/articles/s4146… Work by: @HadjajeS, @Ignacio00432963, Marie-Julie Dalbe and Raphaël Clément

Showcase your #softmatter #science at APS Global Physics Summit 2025! 🤩Indicate your intent to submit a Gallery of Soft Matter poster or video here before Jan 10, 2025: forms.gle/jFUeD1Qgzwu9iS… (Final submissions due in Feb!)

🌀 Spiraling Upward, the 2nd Traveling Gallery of Fluid Motion, is free on Monday, Nov. 25 for all APS DFD Meeting attendees—just show your badge! No registration required for general entry. 📍 Location: The Leonardo Museum

#APSDFD2024 is about to start and 1st talk from the group is by @LKahouadji talking about T-Junction #Microfluidics. A join work with @ThamesUCL @uclchemeng @ImperialChemEng @PREMIERE_UKRI @APSphysics @apsfluiddynamic