Soft BioColloids Lab @univbordeaux @CRPP_Bx PI: @LauraAlvarez_F Out-of-equilibrium soft matter, synthetic cells and microgravity https://xitter.cf/t.co/Gh90LA4pbS
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The work of Willems et al., has been featured on the cover of #SoftMatter
Congrats to everyone for the nice job!
Do not miss the article👇
Our recent article "Run and tumble dynamics of active Janus vesicles" in @softmatter has been featured on the cover of the journal.
Check out the published article: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
Congrats to Vivien Willems for this nice work!
Check our group scientific pictures!
🎨🔬In our lab, science meets art! Vibrant colors& stunning shapes, our experiments are as beautiful as they are fascinating. Because science is art!
✨Check the images captured by the team:
softbiocoll.com
#SciArt #SoftMatter #Microscopy #SyntheticCells #ActiveMatter
SoftBio Colloids Lab retweeted
Our next speaker Professor Laura Alvarez @LauraAlvarez_F - of @softbiocol from University of Bordeaux (France) , she will present on “Designing run and tumble dynamics of active lipid vesicles.”
@StefanoPalagi @ERC_Research @MicroRobotLab
#livingmachine
Last weekend, the @softbiocol group gathered to beat the heat with a lovely picnic — and to celebrate the recent tenure of our group leader, @LauraAlvarez_F!
Here’s to many more exciting years of science and friendship with you and those yet to join!
#softmatter
New preprint about active colloidal mixtures: experiments and simulations! Thanks a lot for the exciting collaboration :)
New prepint w/ @demian_levis @natxopago @soft_isa and E.Sesé-Sansa.
We study active binary mixtures to unveil how two populations with different velocities interact with each other.
Thanks for the great work!🥳
arxiv.org/abs/2506.15188
Check Jose's article @softmatter @RoySocChem
about reversible percolated networks via electric fields now as back cover art!
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
SoftBioColloids group portraits! 🗒️
We will be posting portraits of our group members, so you get to know a bit more about the people driving the science in the group.
We start with the portrait of Vivien Willems👇
More info softbiocoll.com/
Publication Alert!🎉
🚀🧪 New paper out! @softmatter
We show that Janus lipid vesicles can self-propel under AC electric fields, exhibiting run-and-tumble dynamics—just like bacteria, but driven by membrane-phase behavior.
👉 Read here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
Why it’s exciting:
- First time showing tunable run-and-tumble behavior in synthetic, soft lipid vesicles systems
- Reorientation is membrane-driven
- Behavior is encoded in lipid composition and electric field
📄 Run-and-tumble dynamics of active giant vesicles
Vivien Willem, @AlexBar90665370, Daniel Matoz-Fernandez, Gianna Wolifsberg, Eric R. Dufresne, @BaretJc , @LauraAlvarez_F @CRPP_Bx @univbordeaux
🧵 Thanks for reading!
#SoftMatter #ActiveMatter #Biophysics
The active softies of the group met some weeks ago to spend a nice evening together and enjoy some international delicacies!🧀🍷
What a blessing being surrounded by these amazing humans!
If you want to know more about us, check the news on our website :)
softbiocoll.com/general-5
SoftBio Colloids Lab retweeted
🚨 New paper in @PhysRevLett !
We show how motion induces a topological phase transition in 2D populations of oscillators with random frequencies 🌀: journals.aps.org/prl/abstrac…
w YRouzaire PRahmani FPeruani @natxopago @UB_ICS @CUCA_labo @FisicaUB
#ComplexSystems #ActiveMatter
Publication Alert!📢
Check our new article by José in collab with @carlacolloids @LRodriguezArco M. Dijkstra R. Subert & M. Lopez.
We engineering reversible 2D rod percolated networks!
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
#SoftMatter #Colloids
Frequency acts as a selector:
🔻Low freq → dipolar-driven networks
🔺High freq → standing rods, disconnection
Voltage tunes “stickiness.” Electric fields as on-demand glue.
#Percolation #Electrokinetics
SoftBio Colloids Lab retweeted
How cells actively change their shape is an open question. Now, a reconstituted minimal cytoskeleton composed of microtubules and molecular motors is shown to produce membrane fluctuations that drive active shape changes in synthetic cells.
nature.com/articles/s41567-0…
SoftBio Colloids Lab retweeted
Excited about discoveries of topological motifs in complex network materials! If you have not read the beautiful paper by Giorgia Palombo, Simon Weir, @Dmichiel1, and Yair Fosado nature.com/articles/s41563-0… yet, please do! This is just my teaser … nature.com/articles/s41563-0…
