Gallery of Soft Matter 2023

Highlighting the Work of Soft Matter Researchers

The Gallery of Soft Matter Physics is a pilot poster and video competition at the APS March Meeting that showcases the elegance and aesthetics of soft matter and highlights the work of the soft matter community to fellow researchers and the general public.

Video winners

Mermaid Cereal Video by Alireza Hooshanginejad, Brown University; Victoria Spradlin, the Wheeler School; Jack-William Barotta, Brown University; Robert Hunt, Brown University; Giuseppe Pucci, CNR; Daniel M. Harris, Brown University

To Clog or Not To Clog? Video by Ben McMillan, University of Cambridge, bm583@cam.ac.uk; Alban Sauret, UC Santa Barbara, asauret@ucsb.edu; Nathalie Vriend, CU Boulder, nathalie.vriend@colorado.edu

The Life of a Thermal Marangoni Bubble Video by Saurabh Nath, Department of Mechanical Engineering, saurabhn@mit.edu; Ambre Bouillant, Physics of Fluids Group, Mesa+ Institute, University of Twente, ambrebouillant@gmail.com; Panlin Jin, PMMH, CNRS, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University; Guillaume Ricard, MSC, Université Paris Cité, CNRS; David Quéré, PMMH, CNRS, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, david.quere@espci.fr

Poster winners

Dry Hard: Controlling Cracks in Drying Suspension Drops

Dry Hard: Controlling Cracks in Drying Suspension Drops

Poster by Mario Ibrahim, MIT, marioi@mit.ed; Paul Lilin, MIT, plilin@mit.edu; Irmgard Bischofberger, MIT, irmgard@mit.edu

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Colloidal Bananas Get to Form Colloidal Vortices

Colloidal Bananas Get to Form Colloidal Vortices

Poster by Carla Fernandez Rico, carla.fernandezrico@mat.ethz.ch; Roel Dullens, roel.dullens@ru.nl

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All video submissions

    All poster submissions

    Colloidal Bananas Get to Form Colloidal Vortices

    Colloidal Bananas Get to Form Colloidal Vortices

    Poster by Carla Fernandez Rico, carla.fernandezrico@mat.ethz.ch; Roel Dullens, roel.dullens@ru.nl

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    Particle Tribocharging Matters: From Planet Formation to Assembling Crystals

    Particle Tribocharging Matters: From Planet Formation to Assembling Crystals

    Poster by Kai Sotthewes, UT, k.sotthewes@utwente.nl; Han Gardeniers, UT, j.g.e.gardeniers@utwente.nl; Gert Desmet, VUB, gedesmet@vub.be; Ignaas S.M. Jimidar, VUB & UT, i.s.m.jimidar@utwente.nl

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    Arrested Dew Dynamics

    Arrested Dew Dynamics

    Poster by Francis Dent, Sepideh Khodaparast

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    Actin Comet Tail Modulated by Type-I Myosin

    Actin Comet Tail Modulated by Type-I Myosin

    Poster by Mengqi Xu, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, mengqi.xu@pennmedicine.upenn.edu; Luther Pollard, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, luther.pollard@pennmedicine.upenn.edu; Grzegorz Rebowski, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, rebowski@pennmedicine.upenn.edu; Malgorzata Boczkowska, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, malgora@pennmedicine.upenn.edu; Roberto Dominguez, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, droberto@pennmedicine.upenn.edu; Michael Ostap, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, ostap@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

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    Terraforming Microscopic Planets

    Terraforming Microscopic Planets

    Poster by Blake Langeslay, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, blakel3@illinois.edu; Vincent Hickl, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, vhickl2@illinois.edu; Gabriel Juarez, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, gjuarez@illinois.edu

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    Dry Hard: Controlling Cracks in Drying Suspension Drops

    Dry Hard: Controlling Cracks in Drying Suspension Drops

    Poster by Mario Ibrahim, MIT, marioi@mit.ed; Paul Lilin, MIT, plilin@mit.edu; Irmgard Bischofberger, MIT, irmgard@mit.edu

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    Building Functional Biomaterials with Protein Building Blocks

    Building Functional Biomaterials with Protein Building Blocks

    Poster by Matt D.G. Hughes, University of Leeds, phymhug@leeds.ac.uk; Lorna Dougan, University of Leeds, L.Dougan@leeds.ac.uk

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    The Wrinkling of Old Nuclei

    The Wrinkling of Old Nuclei

    Poster by Jonathan A. Jackson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, jajack@mit.edu; Nicolas Romeo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, nromeo@mit.edu; Alexander Mietke, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, amietke@mit.edu; Jan F. Totz, , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, jantotz@mit.edu; Keaton J. Burns, , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, kjburns@mit.edu; Adam C. Martin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, acmartin@mit.edu; Jörn Dunkel, , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, dunkel@mit.edu; Jasmin Imran Alsous, Flatiron Institute, jalsous@flatironinstitute.org

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    The Abstract Configurational Space of Frictional Spheres Under Shear

    The Abstract Configurational Space of Frictional Spheres Under Shear

    Poster by Abhishek Sharma, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at The University of Chicago, abhisheksharma@uchicago.edu; Abhinendra Singh, Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, axs2601@case.edu; Juan de Pablo, The University of Chicago, depablo@uchicago.edu

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