L’AGENDA CHIMIE PARISTECH - PSL

Capillary surfers  Giuseppe Pucci National Research Council of Italy (CNR-Nanotec), Calabria, Italy Active systems have recently attracted considerable interest for the possibility of extending statistical mechanics to incorporate non-equilibrium phenomena, as their constituents locally consume energy in order to move or exert forces on each other. There has been extensive work on dissipation and inertia-dominated active systems (e.g. bacterial suspensions and fish schools, respectively),…

IMAP 2021 Webinar series 3rd of June 2021 at 4pm Online (contact for registration)   Taking a New Solid CO2 Sorbent from Discovery to Commercialization Prof. George Shimizu Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary, Canada Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are transcending from fundamental to applied research, but their use in a large-scale process has not…

Gulliver Seminar ESPCI-PSL 07/06/2021 Rupture of Foam Films and Surface Bubbles Emmanuelle Rio Surface bubbles are of crucial interest since they favour the transport of material from the bulk to the overlying atmosphere through the production of aerosols. This is important for example in climate models, air pollution studies or in the carbonated beverage industry…

The next C3M seminar will be held on 10th June (1.30 pm) with a presentation from Michel Cloitre (Director of C3M Unit, ESPCI Paris) resulting from his recent Weissenberg award 2021.    Presentation title: Soft materials designer: where rheology meets chemistry and physics   Abstract: Soft materials are all around us. They are present in personal and home care products, food,…

Landau Fermi liquids in disguise   By Michele Fabrizio, SISSA Trieste   Zoom link: https://espci.zoom.us/j/87481437306?pwd=R0F5eTlQWHNtT3Q2cVZ6TEluNno2UT09 ID: 874 8143 7306 Password: LevLandau Contact/to subscribe or unsubscribe:    Order by order in perturbation theory one can prove, e.g., in 3D, that the physical electron decay rate, i.e., the imaginary part of self-energy, vanishes quadratically at zero energy. Landau's theory of Fermi liquids…

Slurries of complex fluids Sarah Hormozi Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University Suspensions of non-Brownian particles in viscous fluids, for which thermal fluctuations are negligible, are relevant in industrial processes (e.g. waste disposal, concrete, drilling muds, metalworking chip transport, and food processing) and in natural phenomena (e.g. flows of slurries, debris, and…

Evidence for p-wave pairing and hybridizing Majoranas in artificial finite-size Shiba chains By Jens Wiebe Department of Physics, Universität Hamburg, Germany   A magnetic chain on an s-wave superconductor hosting a spin spiral or strong spin-orbit coupling can potentially realize a one-dimensional topological superconductor with Majorana bound states on its edges.  Here, we investigate artificial…

How amorphous materials yield under stress : a new kind of out of equilibrium phase transition Giulio Biroli (ENS) I will show that a new kind of out of equilibrium phase transition is at the core of how amorphous solids yield in response to external deformations—a phenomenon that is crucial both for practical applications and…

On Monday 28th June at 11:30, Pedro Reis and his team will guide you virtually through the fleXLab at EPFL and will discuss the mechanics of rods and knots. It used to be that academic seminars involved a researcher visiting a host institution to deliver a talk and meet with colleagues (do you remember those…

Ions in motion : Effect of Oscillatory Electric Fields   Carlos Drummond Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (CRPP), UPR 8641-CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, Pessac F-33600, France Zoom link : https://espci.zoom.us/j/85635514099?pwd=dHhMVHQxbENRVkc0amxCelg5cEN2Zz09 ID de réunion : 856 3551 4099 Code secret : 102958   Abstract: The dynamic response to applied electrical potentials is a topic of fundamental…

Tuning Properties and Functionality in the Modulated Self-Assembly of Metal-Organic Frameworks Prof. Ross S. Forgan WestCHEM School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow Online on Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84312479733?pwd=ZUhSUVh1WFBnQVhRQnJTZmIvVnVzUT09 Meeting ID: 843 1247 9733 Secret code: K3nwq9 Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are network materials comprised of organic ligands connected by metal ion clusters into multidimensional structures that often have…