2020

Mahdiye’s work on surface tensiometry of phase separated liquid droplets has been published in Soft Matter.

Qin’s work on the surface relaxation mechanisms of soft solids has just been published in Physical Review Letters.

Hendrik’s paper on the wrapping of microparticles by floppy lipid membranes has just been published in Physical Review Letters.

After finishing his master's studies with a joint research internship project between CEA Saclay and École Centrale Supélec in France, Tianchi Li joins our group as a doctoral student.

Rob and Jinyoung’s review paper on soft solid/liquid composites has just been published in Advanced Functional Materials.

Yasir joins the group of Soft and Living Materials as a postdoctoral researcher.

Congratulations! Paolo Testa successfully defended his PhD thesis on July 14th.

Paolo and Katie have just had their papers published in Soft Matter.

Aleks joins the group of Soft and Living Materials from May 1st as a postdoctoral researcher. 

During these socially distant times, the Soft and Living Materials group keeps in touch virtually!

Jinyoung’s paper on cavitation in soft solids has just been published in Science Advances.

Guido gave a lecture with the title “Time and relative dimension in self-assembly: towards a systems chemistry of materials” at the Materials Colloquium 2020.

Six new students will work in the lab in the next few weeks.

The Laboratory of Soft and Living Materials organized an outreach activity for the Freies Gymnasium Zürich about the science behind chocolate tempering and structural colour.

Polymers put the squeeze on liquid droplets in the latest paper from Katie and Sai, recently published on Nature Physics.

Guido's work has been published in two papers.

The Laboratory of Soft and Living Materials has won new funding to support research at the interface between materials physics and cell biology.