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Le séminaire hebdomadaire du laboratoire PMMH a lieu tous les vendredis à 11h, au premier étage Barre Cassan, campus Jussieu (plan).
Stéphane Perrard
Etienne Reyssat
Virgile Thiévenaz
PMMH
BARRE CASSAN
BAT A 1ER ETAGE CASE 18
7 QUAI SAINT BERNARD
75005 PARIS
France
Tel : (33) 1 40 79 45 22
Séminaire PMMH, Vinod Kumar Saranathan (Yale NUS College)
Biomimetic and Bio-inspired Potential of Self-assembled Biophotonic Nanostructures
Colors in Nature can be produced either chemically, by the selective light bsorption by pigments, or physically, by light interference from biophotonic nanostructures. Intriguingly, there are almost no known violet, blue or green pigments in animals. And yet these structurally produced colors are ubiquitous in nature and constitute an important aspect of the overall appearance of organisms, as they are frequently used in camouflage, and in social and sexual communication. As the underlying biophotonic nanostructures are overwhelmingly diverse in form and function, their structural and optical characterization has hitherto remained challenging despite centuries of research, which is where I have made rapid and significant ontributions. Although there is a burgeoning interest on structural colors from biologists, physicists and engineers, we currently lack an explicit comparative framework, which is essential to understand how these biological signals function, and evolve in organisms. Moreover, the mechanisms controlling the morphogenesis of these complex, biologically patterned nanostructures are much too large to be described by conventional cell or molecular biology, and much too small to be captured by traditional developmental biology. As a consequence, we know very little about the development of photonic nanostructures within cells, beyond the realisation that they are self-assembled intra-cellularly by mechanobiological, phase separation and micro-phase separation like processes. Biophotonic nanostructures are also of broader interest to materials science and engineering, since the facile synthetic abrication of three-dimensional photonic nanostructures at these rather large ptical length scales (200-500 nm) is challenging. Organismal structural colors that have evolved over millions of years to function in a variety of signalling contexts are an ideal source to look for naturally optimized solutions to technological roblems in sensing, photonics, etc. In this talk, I will summarise our current nowledge about the structure, function and morphogenesis of biophotonic nanostructures and how this can be leveraged for the biomimetic or bio-inspired synthesis of next generation photonic meta-materials and devices.
Séminaires (5)
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Séminaire PMMH - Julien Scheibert (LTDS, EC Lyon)
Vendredi 16 mai de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Metainterfaces : how to design a rough contact that obeys a specific friction law ?
Many devices, including touchscreens and robotic hands, involve frictional contacts. Optimizing those devices requires fine control of the interface's friction law. We lack systematic methods to create dry contact interfaces whose frictional behaviour satisfies preset specifications. In this seminar, I will present (…) -
Séminaire PMMH - Francesca Borghi Università degli Studi di Milano
Vendredi 20 juin de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
REPROGRAMMABLE HARDWARE FOR DATA PROCESSING AT THE EDGE : A NEW COMPUTING PARADIGM BASED ON NEUROMORPHIC SYSTEMS
The brain's ability to perform efficient and fault-tolerant data processing is strongly related with its peculiar interconnected adaptive architecture, based on redundant neural circuits interacting at different scales. By emulating the brain's processing and learning mechanisms, computing technologies strive to (…) -
Séminaire PMMH - Francesca Borghi Università degli Studi di Milano
Vendredi 20 juin de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
REPROGRAMMABLE HARDWARE FOR DATA PROCESSING AT THE EDGE : A NEW COMPUTING PARADIGM BASED ON NEUROMORPHIC SYSTEMS
The brain's ability to perform efficient and fault-tolerant data processing is strongly related with its peculiar interconnected adaptive architecture, based on redundant neural circuits interacting at different scales. By emulating the brain's processing and learning mechanisms, computing technologies strive to (…) -
Séminaire PMMH - Salvatore Federico (University of Calgary, Canada)
Vendredi 4 juillet de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Continuum Mechanics of Hydrated Fibre-Reinforced Soft Tissues
Biological tissues can be represented as bi-phasic continua, with a porous solid phase saturated by an interstitial fluid and reinforced by collagen fibers. This lecture will give an overview of the modelling techniques for fibre-reinforced porous composite materials with statistical orientation of the fibers. Both (…) -
Séminaire PMMH - Salvatore Federico (University of Calgary, Canada)
Vendredi 4 juillet de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Continuum Mechanics of Hydrated Fibre-Reinforced Soft Tissues
Biological tissues can be represented as bi-phasic continua, with a porous solid phase saturated by an interstitial fluid and reinforced by collagen fibers. This lecture will give an overview of the modelling techniques for fibre-reinforced porous composite materials with statistical orientation of the fibers. Both (…)
Instructions générales pour les conférenciers
Le public du séminaire est très hétérogène (rien qu’au PMMH nous travaillons sur des thématiques très diverses, mécanique des fluides, des milieux granulaires, des solides, physique statistique, physique du mouillage, micro-fluidique, biophysique,...) l’objectif est donc de ne pas faire un séminaire trop spécialiste : au moins la première moitié du séminaire à un niveau accessible pour celui qui ne connaît rien sur le sujet.
Le séminaire a lieu à 11h. rendez-vous 15 minutes avant pour installer et tester la projection.
Le séminaire dure environ 45 minutes pour laisser un peu de temps pour discuter à la fin.
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