If you're interested in any aspect of freezing research, come join us at 'Ice at the Microscale' in Switzerland this summer: ice2025.ethz.ch
Registration is now open, with early bird discount until the end of May. #ice
If you're interested in hydrogel mechanical or osmotic properties, check out @YanxiaFENG93's new paper:
doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps…
Yanxia showed how you can use freezing-point osmometry to measure these properties, and that classical hydrogel theory doesn't really work very well.
Super happy to share our recent work in Advanced Materials! We’ve created microcapsule arrays that autonomously “report” stress variations at the microscale by lighting up with various fluorescences.
I'm co-organising a conference on ice physics in Switzerland next year in beautiful Ticino. Check out ice2025.ethz.ch for more details, and come join us for an amazing week!
Ever seen how elastomers fail?
🎉Thrilled to share our latest publication "Elastomers Fail from the Edge", led by Nan Xue, in @PhysRevX!
Find out how "edge" cracks play a key role in understanding this fracture process
@SoftLiv_Cornell@ETH_Materials@LASSP_Cornell@CornellMSE
Ever seen how elastomers fail?
🎉Thrilled to share our latest publication "Elastomers Fail from the Edge", led by Nan Xue, in @PhysRevX!
Find out how "edge" cracks play a key role in understanding this fracture process
@SoftLiv_Cornell@ETH_Materials@LASSP_Cornell@CornellMSE
Super happy for our latest publication on freezing, showing how freezing and drying break wet materials in the same way. Great work from Shaohua Yang and Dominic Gerber:
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Hate polymers? Help us destroy them with depolymerization and chemical recycling!
We have two fully funded PhD positions in Polymer Chemistry at ETH! Come be our colleague! @AnastasakiLabjobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_…
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Dominic's latest work on freezing soft materials is out, and we're super happy to have it covered in Physics: physics.aps.org/articles/v16/1…!
Check it out to see why freezing damage is more complex than you might think. @PhysRevLett@SoftLiv_Cornell
Etienne's @EJambonP and Eric's preprint "Phase-Separated Droplets Swim to Their Dissolution" is out! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
This new swimming mechanism that we call "dialytaxis" could impact intracellular transport and turn protein droplets into robots. @ETH_Materials@Cornell
We are so pleased to announce that Katharine Jensen of Williams College has been selected as the 2023 Adhesion Society Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award winner. Can't wait to hear her talk at our next meeting in Savannah!
I'm looking for a motivated PhD student to work with me on the freezing of Soft Matter @ETH_Materials . If you know anyone who might be interested, please do encourage them to apply: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_…
Congratulations to Rob Style who got an SNF grant @snf_ch for two PhD students to investigate #freezing#water in #soft materials! 🔬⛄️🎉 @ETH_Materials @ETH
Video credit: Dominic Gerber, Rob Style
(showing freezing salt water)
What happens if you add highly swelling particles to silicone elastomer matrices? You get Hydroelastomers! Check out our new @softmatter paper in collaboration with @SoftLiv_ETH and @SMaL_EPFL . pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…
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