May 17, 2019, 12 p.m. - Study of the thrust--drag balance with a swimming robotic fish (Mederic Argentina )

A robotic fish is used to test the validity of a simplification made in the context of fish locomotion. With this artificial aquatic swimmer, we verify that the momentum equation results from a simple balance between a thrust and a drag that can be treated independently in the small amplitude ...

May 31, 2019, 12 p.m. - Fighting Antibiotic Resistance with Biomimetic Nanostructures (Elena Ivanova)

The threat of a global rise of untreatable infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria calls for the design and fabrication of a new generation of biomaterials. Following the discovery of the efficient, bacteria-killing nature of insect wing surfaces, the properties of these biological nanostructures have recently become the subject of intense ...

Oct. 4, 2019, 12 p.m. - New series will start in October (Seminar's coordinator)

Nov. 8, 2019, 12 p.m. - Toroidal drops and their instabilities (Alberto Fernández de las Nieves)

In this talk I will briefly discuss our recent work with toroidal droplets: How to make them, how they evolve, what does charge do, and how to stabilize them. We will thus cover Rayleigh-Plateau break-up, the shrinking instability of toroidal droplets, whereby the toroidal “hole” shrinks in time, the effects ...

Nov. 29, 2019, 12 p.m. - Next generation of diagnostic tools: from microneedles to nanochannel arrays (Beatriz Prieto Simón)

The unmet needs in point-of-care diagnostics are expected to be fulfilled with the next generation of tools based on highly versatile nanostructured electrochemical biosensing platforms. Tuning of the morphological features and electrochemical properties of the nanostructured material is key. Among the various materials available, porous silicon stands out since features ...

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