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  Des surfaces ultra glissantes bioinspirées

  Inspirés par une plante carnivore qui capture des fourmis en les faisant glisser sur sa paroi, des scientifiques du Laboratoire PMMH (ESPCI Paris / PSL / CNRS) et du LadHyX (Ecole Polytechnique / CNRS) ont récemment étudié un nouveau type de (...)

  
  
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  On the cover of PRL !

  The recent work on the Marangoni Bursting, by L. Keiser, H. Bense, P. Colinet, J. Bico and E. Reyssat, has been selected to be on the cover of Physical Review Letters. Abstract: Adjusting the wetting properties of water through the addition of (...)

  
  
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  ESPCI Paris Distinguished Professor : David Quéré à l’honneur

  Le 29 novembre 2016, l’École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris – ESPCI Paris – a attribué le Titre de ESPCI Paris Distinguished Professor à 3 de ses chercheurs. Reconnue pour l’excellence de son Enseignement (...)

  
  
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  A Cascade of droplets in a mixture of molten glass

  Researchers from CNRS, ESPCI Paris, and Saint-Gobain used a 3D imaging technique of X-ray micro-tomography to follow the evolution of a mixture of molten glass at high temperature. They shed new light on an original mechanism of liquids (...)

  
  
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  ERC Consolidator Grant for A. Lindner

  Congratulations to Anke Lindner, who has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant 2016 for her project PaDyFlow devoted to the study of particle dynamics in the flow of complex suspensions. PaDyFlow Project abstract: Particle laden flows are (...)

  
  
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  MiLaMiFab : Projet SESAME 2015 Région Ile de France

  MicroLab/MicroFab PI Eric Clément-PMMH The PMMH laboratory, in collaboration with two other laboratories of the ESPCI (Gulliver, SIMM), is currently managing a micro-printing platform based on the 3D printer Nanoscribe for developing mechanical (...)

  
  
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  PRE Editors’ Suggestion - Physical processes causing the formation of penitentes

  P. Claudin, H. Jarry, G. Vignoles, M. Plapp, and B. Andreotti, Phys. Rev. E 92, 033015 (2015) - Snow penitentes form in sublimation conditions by differential ablation. Here we investigate the physical processes at the initial stage of (...)

  
  
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  PRE Editors’ Suggestion - Prediction of frequencies in thermosolutal convection from mean flows

  S. E. Turton, L. S. Tuckerman and D. Barkley Phys. Rev. E 91, 043009 – Published 14 April 2015. Motivated by studies of the cylinder wake, in which the vortex-shedding frequency can be obtained from the mean flow, we study thermosolutal (...)

  
  
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  La nature pour modèle

  Conçu au PMMH, ce micronageur artificiel, d’un diamètre d’un millimètre, reproduit les mouvements de l’anguille. Il est ici filmé (de gauche à droite) alors qu’il avance à une dizaine de centimètres par seconde. En haut et en noir, sa tête (...)

  
  
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  PRE Editor’s suggestion - Edge effects on water droplet condensation

  Marie-Gabrielle Medici, Anne Mongruel, Laurent Royon, and Daniel Beysens, Phys. Rev. E 90, 062403 (2014). In this study we investigate the effect of geometrical or thermal discontinuities on the growth of water droplets condensing on a cooled (...)

  
  

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