Shoutout to the folks at Polytechnique (Montréal & Palaiseau) for their work just out in @Nature on how kirigami principles✂️ can be applied to make parachutes 🪂
Cutting a pattern into a flat disc can transform it into a parachute capable of carrying small payloads
go.nature.com/4nsfnjb
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Mucus films cover lung airways, but when do they block them? Beyond thickness and volume, intermediate films develop humps whose sliding and nonlinear growth can robustly form plugs, independent of gravity and ciliary transport.
Read more at go.aps.org/4mLcKZG
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I am teaching Intro to Robotics again at @Princeton. New this year: final project where students use imitation learning to make drones navigate! Starter code will be publicly available.
All other course materials (lecture videos, notes, etc.) from F'22:
short-link.me/1cXr8
Happy to share our last paper 👉 nature.com/articles/s41467-0… where we show how beads can turn flexible fiber networks into load-bearing structures. Fun to build, tricky to crack—these metamaterials keep you on your toes! (literally) @LaurenDreier @Trev_J_Jones
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More on collective behavior: Our new Annual Review of Biophysics piece - with the stellar Danielle Chase - explores how animals sense, share information, and make group decisions. In honeybees and beyond 🐝
annualreviews.org/content/jo…
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Inspired by biological growth, scientists have developed a 3D printing method that ''grows'' objects from liquid resin using a self-propelling chemical reaction.
This approach enables the creation of beautiful, complex shapes like this helical horn.
👉 ow.ly/IzkX50VXVch
Are you interested in a postdoc in fluid mechanics/ 3d printing/ soft robotics/ active matter... This call might be for you marie-sklodowska-curie-actio…
Reach out if interested, I am now in Belgium @KU_Leuven
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Our article on the junction of slender objects under tension has just been published @ESPCI_Paris! We discuss a cool phenomenon found in numerous systems, from kirigamis, kuttsukigami, and inflatables to more traditional tearing and peeling
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24…
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Using propulsion systems like bows and spearthrowers, researchers have found that flexible, weighted-tip projectiles that wobble when thrown can achieve a kinetic energy gain of 160% over rigid ones.
Read the paper in Physical Review E: go.aps.org/4hcv9vv
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Explore human-AI interactions in virtual reality at @the_leonardo in Salt Lake City, UT. It’s part of “Spiraling Upwards,” the traveling exhibit organized by @apsfluiddynamic.
The exhibit closes Jan. 31: go.aps.org/3OPCTa9
📷 Hyun Cho
ALT In a large room in an art gallery, two visitors in the center wear VR headsets. Two gallery walls display 3D video game renderings of pastel-colored shapes and clouds.
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Our paper on multi-DOF origami metamaterials has been published in Physical Review Research
Imada and Tachi "Maxwell origami tube."
doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResea…
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Researchers have devised a simplified description of the mechanical properties of intertwined materials. The work could have implications for the development of a wide variety of materials, from conventional clothing to smart textiles and soft robotics. go.aps.org/3BBcmub
ALT An illustration of a net-like material consisting of interlocking twine.
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Fresh off the press @NatureComms, our work on wing deployment in Drosophila 🪰:
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Work by: @HadjajeS, @Ignacio00432963, Marie-Julie Dalbe and Raphaël Clément
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Showcase your #softmatter #science at APS Global Physics Summit 2025! 🤩Indicate your intent to submit a Gallery of Soft Matter poster or video here before Jan 10, 2025: forms.gle/jFUeD1Qgzwu9iSZSA (Final submissions due in Feb!)
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🌀 Spiraling Upward, the 2nd Traveling Gallery of Fluid Motion, is free on Monday, Nov. 25 for all APS DFD Meeting attendees—just show your badge! No registration required for general entry.
📍 Location: The Leonardo Museum
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#APSDFD2024 is about to start and 1st talk from the group is by @LKahouadji talking about T-Junction #Microfluidics. A join work with @ThamesUCL @uclchemeng @ImperialChemEng @PREMIERE_UKRI
@APSphysics @apsfluiddynamic
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Love science and art? You’ll want to stop by “Spiraling Upwards,” @apsfluiddynamic’s traveling exhibition of the Gallery of Fluid Motion. It delves into #FluidDynamics and Da Vinci’s fascination with flight.
Open through Jan. 31 at @the_leonardo.
Learn more: go.aps.org/4hwf3gY
ALT A digital sculpture using screenshots from social media to create the shape of a mushroom cloud. It is on a black background with a bright glow coming from the center of the mushroom top.
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Welcome to the first day of #APSDFD 2024! Today begins with the first scientific sessions and ends with the Welcome Reception! 🎉
Make sure to check out the new pilot session DFD-Interact today to see presentations from top physicists with outstanding abstracts! 🌊
