Gallery of Soft Matter 2022

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

Fluid-Mediated Soft Actuators Video by Trevor J. Jones, Matthew Adler, Etienne Jambon-Puille, Joel Marthelot, P.-T. Brun

Fluid-Mediated Soft Actuators Video by Savannah Gowen, Thomas Videbaek, Sidney Nagel

Poster winners

Thumbnail for poster 'Frustrated Ceramics'


Frustrated Ceramics
Poster by Shira Shoval, Shenkar Academy of Arts and Design; Ofri Dar, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design;Eran Sharon, HUJI
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Thumbnail for poster 'Keeping an Eye on Drying Liquid Crystals'


Keeping an Eye on Drying Liquid Crystals
Poster by Qing Zhang, MIT; Chenhui Peng, University of Memphis; Irmgard Bischofberger, MIT
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Thumbnail for poster 'Bending Plateau's Laws'


Bending Plateau's Laws Poster by Manon Jouanlanne, Antoine Egelé, Damien Favier, Wiebke Drenckhan, Jean Farago, Aurélie Hourlier-Fargette, Universitéde Strasbourg
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All video submissions

    All poster submissions

    Thumbnail image for poster 'Tribocharging-induced Self-organization of Microspheres' Tribocharging-induced Self-organization of Microspheres
    Poster by Ignaas S. M. Jimidar, Kai Sotthewes, Devaraj van der Meer, Han Gardeniers, Gert Desmet
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'Heart-shape of DNA Knots' Heart-shape of DNA Knots
    Poster by Qiyuan QIU, Liang DAI
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'Assembling Giant Unilamellar Vesicles into tissue-like structures: a biomimetic approach' Assembling Giant Unilamellar Vesicles into tissue-like structures: a biomimetic approach
    Poster by Laura Casas Ferrer, Gladys Massiera, Laura Casanellas
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'Time will tell' Time will tell
    Poster by Kieran Murphy, Dani Bassett
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'EGaIn Droplet Down Incline' EGaIn Droplet Down Incline
    Poster by Keith Hillaire, Hangjie Ji, Karen E. Daniels
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'Colloidal bananas get to form wavy liquid crystals' Colloidal bananas get to form wavy liquid crystals
    Poster by Taiki Yanagishima, Heidi de Sousa, Massimiliano Chiappini, Dirk Aarts, Marjolein Dijkstra, Roel Dullens
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'SAWstitch: exploring self avoiding walks through hand-embroidery' SAWstitch: exploring self avoiding walks through hand-embroidery
    Poster by Christa Brown, Kalila Cook, Paul Beales, Lorna Dougan
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'Evaporative self-assembly of polyethylene oxide (PEO) ' Evaporative self-assembly of polyethylene oxide (PEO)
    Poster by Shakshi Gupta, Dillip K. Satapathy
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'Engineered Thin Films' Engineered Thin Films
    Poster by Navraj Lalli, Li Shen, Daniele Dini, Andrea Giusti
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'Growth and Relaxation of the Surface Instability Patterns' Growth and Relaxation of the Surface Instability Patterns
    Poster by Vaisakh V Mohanan, Ho Yi Lydia Mak, Nishan Gurung, Qin Xu
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'Granular Force Networks' Granular Force Networks
    Poster by Estelle Berthier, Karen E. Daniels, Mason A. Porter
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'Granular Networks' Granular Networks
    Poster by Nauer Silvia, Porter Mason
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'Birth and death of liquid crystalline 1D domains' Birth and death of liquid crystalline 1D domains
    Poster by Almukambetova Madina, Jeong Joonwoo
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'Left or Right: How Liquid Crystals Around Droplets Twist' Left or Right: How Liquid Crystals Around Droplets Twist
    Poster by Kim Jungmyung, Jeong Joonwoo
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'Transcendence of a thin film' Transcendence of a thin film
    Poster by Muhammad Rizwanur Rahman, Li Shen, James Ewen, Edward Smith, Daniele Dini
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'Keeping Our Sheet Together' Keeping Our Sheet Together
    Poster by Carly E. Galvin, Brendan C. Blackwell, Michelle M. Driscoll
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'Blooming PLA' Blooming PLA
    Poster by Ofri Dar Industrial, Ido Levin, Arielle Blonder, Eran Sharon
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'Amplitude-dependent boundary modes in topological mechanical lattices' Amplitude-dependent boundary modes in topological mechanical lattices
    Poster by Yuan Zhou, Yafei Zhang, C.Q. Chen
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'The sound of an active hexagon' The sound of an active hexagon
    Poster by Paul Baconnier, Joachim Charbit, Olivier Dauchot
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'Persistent Homology Descriptors for Surface Topology Analyses' Persistent Homology Descriptors for Surface Topology Analyses
    Poster by Nitesh Kumar, Aurora Clark
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'Mosaics of active turbulence' Mosaics of active turbulence
    Poster by Caleb Wagner, Michael Norton, Jae Sung Park, Piyush Grover
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'Controlling active droplets ' Controlling active droplets
    Poster by H. Baza, Y. Wang, M. Rajabi, H. Wang, S. Shiyanovski, O. D. Lavrentovich
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'The Life of Robotic Swarms' The Life of Robotic Swarms
    Poster by Timofey Kruglov, Vadim Porvatov, Alina Rozenblit, Ekaterina Puhtina, Anastasia Molodtsova, Mikhail Buzakov, Daria Sennikova, Vyacheslav Smirnov, Oleg Burmistrov, Alexey Dmitriev, Anton Souslov, Alexander Borisov, Nikita Olekhno
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'Inside an Avalanche' Inside an Avalanche
    Poster by Qinghao Mao, Tanvi Gandhi, Abhinendra Singh, Siavash Monfared, Robert Buarque de Macedo, José E. Andrade, Heinrich M. Jaeger
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'Particle stress and force network in bidisperse frictional suspensions' Particle stress and force network in bidisperse frictional suspensions
    Poster by Abhinendra Singh, Abhishek K. Sharma, Juan J. de Pablo, Heinrich M. Jaeger
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'Under Pressure: When Bubbles Crack' Under Pressure: When Bubbles Crack
    Poster by Paul Lilin, Jean Elkhoury, Irmgard Bischofberger
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'Lace in Space' Lace in Space
    Poster by Lauren Dreier, Basile Baudez, Stefana Parascho
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'Wrinkles and developable cones in confined annular sheets' Wrinkles and developable cones in confined annular sheets
    Poster by Lucia Stein-Montalvo, Arman Guerra, Kanani Almeida, Ousmane Kodio, Douglas P. Holmes
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    Thumbnail image for poster 'Flexible micropillar forest' Flexible micropillar forest
    Poster by Lebo Molefe, John M. Kolinski
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