Internship and thesis proposals
Turgor pressure & twist instabilities

Domaines
Soft matter

Type of internship
Expérimental et théorique
Description
Morphogenesis: how can complex structures spontaneously emerge from instabilities and how can we drive them through simple physical design principles ? Building up on new bio-based formulations, this internship focuses on experimentally and theoretically studying the mechanisms driving self-organized deformations in swelling gels, from fringe formation to macroscopic twisting and surface creasing.

Contact
Etienne Barthel
Laboratory : SIMM - ESPCI - UMR7615
Team : Sciences et Ingénierie de la Matière Molle
Team Website
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