Foams offer a large exchange surface between a gas phase
and a liquid phase while allowing for easy renewal of the
liquid phase. We are investigating the possibility of using
them as low-cost gas filtration units for CO2 capture.

I am interested in the controlled use of hollow shells to
generate small-scale flows for applications such as mixing,
or the propulsion and control of immersed microrobots. The
key-mechanism is the buckling trigerred by an acoustic wave.
(Movie by M.Mokbel)
The complex dynamics of red blood cells leads to
non-linear laws to describe the additional dissipation they
generate and the way they split at the level of
bifurcations. I am interested in understanding the
fundamental mechanisms leading to their organization within
the flow, and to the consequences at the level of the
network.

My PhD project !
Charged millimetric beads were confined in different
geometries to address several problems of constrained
diffusion and crystal organization.