Multiscale Mechanics of Soft Solids

Our team’s research deals with soft matter systems (foams, emulsions,  polymer solutions and gels), at the interface between mechanics and physico-chemistry, with a hint of bio-physics.

We aim at understanding the origin of the rheological properties of these complex, strongly hierarchical systems.

6 topics

Extrusion instabilities of viscoelastic and gelable fluids	Fracture of biopolymer hydrogels	Acoustic propagation in glasses
Complex liquids, foams and emulsions	New self-organized stacking structures in foams, controlled by attractive interactions between bubbles	Dynamics in foams near the jamming transition: a microgravity experiment