Active and driven hydrodynamic crystals

Nicolas’ paper on the dynamics of active and driven microfluidic crystals  [pdf].

Engineering the surface properties of Micofluidic Stickers

Bertrand and Ammar’s on the engineering of the wetting and the adhesion properties of microfluidic stickers [pdf].

Hamiltonian traffic dynamics in microfluidic-loop networks

In Raphael’s first preprint, we investigate the traffic dynamics of a finite number of particles in an infinite microfluidic-loop network [pdf].

Stability and non-linear response of 1D microfluidic-particle streams

How does a microfluidic-particle stream respond to an external perturbation? Nicolas’ work is available here [pdf]

Geometric scaling of purely-elastic flow instabilities

Josephine’s work on elastic flow instabilities probed in microfluidic channels [pdf]

Collective beating of artificial microcilia

Naïs’ work on the collective dynamics of artificial microcilia [pdf]:

Click on the picture to watch a movie.

 

The cilia are self-assembled magnetic filaments. The distance between the cilia is 30 microns, the driving frequency is 2 Hz. The last frame of the movie shows the trajectories followed by the tip of the cilia.

 

 

Eppur si muove

Second realization of a simple plastic MEMS. Rafaele preprint here: [pdf]

Three-dimensional beating of magnetic microrods

Nais’ and Sandrine’s work on the rotational dynamics of an artificial magnetic cilium [pdf].

Traffic Jams and Intermittent Flows in Microfluidic Networks

Nicolas’ work on the traffic dynamics of microparticles through a fluidic network [pdf] .

Shaking-induced motility in suspensions of soft active particles

You can download a preprint of our last work on the collective dynamics of soft active particles here:[pdf]

 

soft active particles