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 Cell Mimics 

Experimental Soft & Active Matter Lab

We use high-precision real-space imaging techniques to directly probe the physics of soft and active matter.
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Selected recent publications​​

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  • Shape-drive jamming-unjamming of cell-mimics, Nat. Comm. 2024​

  • Colloidal heat engine in a viscoelastic bath, PRL 2023

  • Overcoming power-efficiency trade-off in a micro heat engine, Nat. Comm. 2023​

  • Uncovering order in disordered systems, PNAS 2023

  • Surface strain mediated interactions in colloidal heteroepitaxy, PRL 2022

  • Melting on a sphere, PNAS 2022

  • Glassy dynamics of active granular ellipsoids, PRL 2022

  • Colloidal heat engine in engineered reservoirs, Nat. Comm. 2021

  • Stereo-selective interactions in chiral active ellipsoids, Sci. Adv. 2021

  • Devitrification of a colloidal glass, Nat. Phys. 2021​

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