2021

Congrats Carla! Carla has been awarded the ETH Postdoctoral Fellowship, which aims at supporting young postdoctoral candidates with excellent scientific record.

Carla and co-authors published a Perspective on JACS Au, with the title "Putting the squeeze on phase separation".

The Research Fellowship for Women in Science of the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Bio-Inspired Materials seeks to support the professional development of outstanding female researchers.

Marlène Saulais, a PhD student from the LGP2 lab at the University of Grenoble Alpes, will join our lab for three months to work on structural color.

The surface tension of soft silicone gels changes with deformation state in the new paper from Nicolas and co-authors, recently published in Physical Review Letters.

Yanxia Feng joins the lab as a doctoral student.

Artificial protein droplets mimic living systems in the new paper from Andrea and co-authors, recently published on Nature Communications.

We organised an in-person retreat in the Swiss Alps last September. A two-days event rich of personal and scientific discussions, fun moments and workshops! 

The photos of the exhibition of our laboratory at Scientifica 2021.

Sai and Yasir's paper has been recently published on Small. In this work Yasir and Sai, inspired by living organisms, demonstrate a simple method to dramatically increase the refractive index of commercial polymers, loading them with plant-based pigments. 

Nan Xue joined the lab as postdoctoral researcher.

Katrina gave a talk at the opening event for Scientifica 2021.

Nicolas gave a talk during a workshop at Les Houches Summer School organised by the GDR MePhy (Mécanique et Physique des Systèmes Complexes).

The lab will participate at Scientifica 2021, the outreach event from ETH Zürich and the University of Zürich where you can touch by hand the science done in Zürich!

Carla Fernandez Rico joins the Soft and Living Materials Group as a postdoctoral researcher

Rob gave a talk at the International Webinar on Gels and Networks, organised by the University of Tokyo.

In a new paper in PRX, Jinyoung Kim and his co-authors have demonstrated a new way to overcome contact angle hysteresis for soft materials.

Andrea won the prize for "Best Image" at the MaP Symposium 2021, with a picture of time projections of fluorescent nanoparticles, showing the flow lines inside a droplet under an external gradient.

Eric’s long-time collaborators Vinod Saranathan and Richard Prum, have recently discovered the first three dimensional photonic crystals made from protein. 

In Alba's paper, structural color emerges spontaneously in one step thanks to phase-separation in the solid state.