Poste Maitre de Conférence Matière Molle Expérimentale
Un poste Maitre de Conférence en matière molle expérimentale s’est ouvert. Les dossiers de candidatures doivent être déposés sur le portail ODYSSEE avant le vendredi 3 avril 2026, 16h. Fiche …
Publication: Crystal growth at a liquid–liquid interface upon drop impact
The crystallisation that occurs when a drop is in contact with a cold surface is a particularly challenging phenomenon to capture experimentally and describe theoretically. The situation of a liquid–liquid …
New publication: Flat-cupped transition in freezing drop impacts
We present an experimental study on the freezing of alkane drops impacted on a liquid bath. More specifically, for drops of hexadecane and tetradecane on brine, we found a morphological …
CNRS blog post on our research
The CNRS released an article on our researcher supported by the ANR Asperfoam. The aim of this research is to understand the friction of liquid foam on rough surfaces. Article …
Dynamics of bubbles spontaneously entering in a tube
We just published the study related to the bamboo foam illustrated on this picture that received the « coup de coeur » price from the CNRS picture contest. When an open tube …
The stain left by a drop of coffee on your hair
This work is published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics and available on arxiv.
Soap films are cool!
Evaporation is known to cause cooling, much like perspiration. Physicists have measured the temperature of soap films to show that they can be up to 8°C cooler than the temperature of the environment.
Bamboo forest: our image is laureate of the CNRS photo contest
Authors: François Boulogne, Alexis Commereuc When glass tubes are plunged in a glass filled with a foamy liquid which is covered by a foam layer, bubbles spontaneously enter in the …
Evaporation of liquid coating a fiber
We investigate theoretically and numerically the diffusion-limited evaporation of a liquid deposited on a fiber in two configurations: a sleeve and a axisymmetric barrel-shaped droplet. For a sleeve, the local …
Manon Marchand received the PhD thesis price from the physics graduate school of Paris-Saclay University
Manon Marchand defended her PhD thesis at Laboratoire de Physique des Solides on the foam friction on rough surfaces. She obtained the price from the physics graduate school of Paris-Saclay …