Publications

Why must visual stimuli be so poor? - Ninio, J.
PERCEPTION 41, 60 (2012)

Peristaltic patterns for swelling and shrinking of soft cylindrical gels - Ciarletta, Pasquale and Ben Amar, Martine
SOFT MATTER 8, 1760-1763 (2012)

Mechanical Instabilities of Gels - Dervaux, Julien and Ben Amar, Martine
in ANNUAL REVIEW OF CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, VOL 3 edited by Langer, JS (2012), 

Abstract : Although the study of gels undoubtedly takes its roots within the field of physicochemistry, the interest in gels has flourished and they have progressively become an important object in the study of the mechanics of polymeric materials and volumetric growth, raising some fascinating problems, some of them remaining unsolved. Because gels are multiphase objects, their study represents an important step in the understanding of the mechanics of complex soft matter as well as for the process of shape generation in biological bodies. The scope of this article is to review the understanding we have of the mechanical behavior of gels, with a strong focus on the development of instabilities in swelling gels.

Approaches to the Study of Atg8-Mediated Membrane Dynamics In Vitro - Jotwani, Anjali and Richerson, Diana N. and Motta, Isabelle and Julca-Zevallos, Omar and Melia, Thomas J.
in LIPIDS, VOL 108 edited by DiPaolo, G and Wenk, MR (2012), 

Abstract : Macro-autophagy is the intracellular stress-response pathway by which the cell packages portions of the cytosol for delivery into the lysosome. This ``packaging'' is carried out by the de novo formation of a new organelle called the autophagosome that grows and encapsulates cytosolic material for eventual lysosomal degradation. How autophagosomes form, including especially how the membrane expands and eventually closes upon itself is an area of intense study. One factor implicated in both membrane expansion and membrane fusion is the ubiquitin-like protein, Atg8. During autophagy, Atg8 becomes covalently bound to phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) on the pre-autophagosomal membrane and remains bound through the maturation process of the autophagosome. In this chapter, we discuss two approaches to the in vitro reconstitution of this lipidation reaction. We then describe methods to study Atg8-PE mediated membrane tethering and fusion, two functions implicated in Atg8's role in autophagosome maturation.

Pattern formation by dewetting and evaporating sedimenting suspensions - Habibi, Mehdi and Moller, Peder and Fall, Abdoulaye and Rafai, Salima and Bonn, Daniel
SOFT MATTER 8, 4682-4686 (2012)

Shear thickening of Laponite suspensions with poly(ethylene oxide) - Fall, Abdoulaye and Bonn, Daniel
SOFT MATTER 8, 4645-4651 (2012)

How genealogies are affected by the speed of evolution - Brunet, Eric and Derrida, Bernard
PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE 92, 255-271 (2012)

Dynamical heterogeneity in aging colloidal glasses of Laponite - Jabbari-Farouji, S. and Zargar, R. and Wegdam, G. H. and Bonn, Daniel
SOFT MATTER 8, 5507-5512 (2012)

Liquid Rope Coiling - Ribe, Neil M. and Habibi, Mehdi and Bonn, Daniel
in ANNUAL REVIEW OF FLUID MECHANICS, VOL 44 edited by Davis, SH and Moin, P (2012), 

Abstract : A thin stream or rope of viscous fluid falling from a sufficient height onto a surface forms a steadily rotating helical coil. Tabletop laboratory experiments in combination with a numerical model for slender liquid ropes reveal that finite-amplitude coiling can occur in four distinct regimes (viscous, gravitational, inertio-gravitational, and inertial) corresponding to different balances among the three principal forces acting on the rope. The model further shows that the onset of coiling has distinct viscous, gravitational, and inertial modes that connect smoothly with the corresponding finite-amplitude regimes. In addition to steady coiling, slender liquid ropes falling onto surfaces can exhibit a remarkable variety of nonstationary behaviors, including propagating spiral waves of air bubbles, supercoiling, the leaping-shampoo (Kaye) effect for non-Newtonian fluids, and the fluid-mechanical sewing machine in which the rope leaves complex stitch patterns on a moving surface.

Reversals of a large-scale field generated over a turbulent background - Gallet, B. and Herault, J. and Laroche, C. and Petrelis, F. and Fauve, S.
GEOPHYSICAL AND ASTROPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS 106, 468-492 (2012)

Interaction between polarons and analogous effects in polarized Fermi gases - Giraud, S. and Combescot, R.
PHYSICAL REVIEW A 85,  (2012)

Anomalous Exponents at the Onset of an Instability - Petrelis, F. and Alexakis, A.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 108,  (2012)

Detection and Quantification through a Lipid Membrane Using the Molecularly Controlled Semiconductor Resistor - Bavli, Danny and Tkachev, Maria and Piwonski, Hubert and Capua, Eyal and de Albuquerque, Ian and Bensimon, David and Haran, Gilad and Naaman, Ron
LANGMUIR 28, 1020-1028 (2012)

Polymerase Exchange During Okazaki Fragment Synthesis Observed in Living Cells (Retracted, see vol 346, pg 1466, 2014) - Lia, Giuseppe and Michel, Benedicte and Allemand, Jean-Francois
SCIENCE 335, 328-331 (2012)

Perception of categories: From coding efficiency to reaction times - Bonnasse-Gahot, Laurent and Nadal, Jean-Pierre
BRAIN RESEARCH 1434, 47-61 (2012)

Lateral Diffusion and Association of Transmembrane Proteins Inside a Biomimetic Bilayer Mesophase - Rayan, Gamal and Reffay, Myriam and Picard, Martin and Taulier, Nicolas and Ducruix, Arnaud and Urbach, Wladimir
BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL 102, 625A (2012)

Chaotic motors - Laroche, C. and Labbe, R. and Petrelis, F. and Fauve, S.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS 80, 113-121 (2012)

Aggregation on a membrane of particles undergoing active exchange with a reservoir - Foret, L.
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL E 35,  (2012)

Different Cell Fates from Cell-Cell Interactions: Core Architectures of Two-Cell Bistable Networks - Rouault, Herve and Hakim, Vincent
BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL 102, 417-426 (2012)

Dynamic interfacial tension effects in the rupture of liquid necks - Saint Vincent, M. Robert de and Petit, J. and Aytouna, M. and Delville, J. P. and Bonn, D. and Kelly, H.
JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS 692, 499-510 (2012)