Foams for CO2 capture

Foams are ideal substrates for efficient gas separation, and possibly capture

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.

Buckling of spherical shells

Buckling of elastic structures is a versatile way of producing fluid motion

Buckling of a
                spherical shell

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)

Blood flows

Blood microcirculation exhibits complex flow patterns

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.

Macroscopic Wigner crystals

A model system of interacting particles

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