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SoftBio Colloids Lab @softbiocol
Joined January 2025
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The work of Willems et al., has been featured on the cover of #SoftMatter Congrats to everyone for the nice job! Do not miss the article👇
Laura Alvarez@LauraAlvarez_F
10 Aug 2025
Our recent article "Run and tumble dynamics of active Janus vesicles" in @softmatter has been featured on the cover of the journal. Check out the published article: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti… Congrats to Vivien Willems for this nice work!
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Check our group scientific pictures!
Laura Alvarez@LauraAlvarez_F
21 Jul 2025
🎨🔬In our lab, science meets art! Vibrant colors& stunning shapes, our experiments are as beautiful as they are fascinating. Because science is art! ✨Check the images captured by the team: softbiocoll.com #SciArt #SoftMatter #Microscopy #SyntheticCells #ActiveMatter
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Yashpal Singh Brar
@yashpalsbrar
15 Jul 2025
Our next speaker Professor Laura Alvarez @LauraAlvarez_F - of @softbiocol from University of Bordeaux (France) , she will present on “Designing run and tumble dynamics of active lipid vesicles.” @StefanoPalagi @ERC_Research @MicroRobotLab #livingmachine
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Last weekend, the @softbiocol group gathered to beat the heat with a lovely picnic — and to celebrate the recent tenure of our group leader, @LauraAlvarez_F! Here’s to many more exciting years of science and friendship with you and those yet to join! #softmatter
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New preprint about active colloidal mixtures: experiments and simulations! Thanks a lot for the exciting collaboration :)
Laura Alvarez@LauraAlvarez_F
19 Jun 2025
New prepint w/ @demian_levis @natxopago @soft_isa and E.Sesé-Sansa. We study active binary mixtures to unveil how two populations with different velocities interact with each other. Thanks for the great work!🥳 arxiv.org/abs/2506.15188
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Check Jose's article @softmatter @RoySocChem about reversible percolated networks via electric fields now as back cover art! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
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SoftBioColloids group portraits! 🗒️ We will be posting portraits of our group members, so you get to know a bit more about the people driving the science in the group. We start with the portrait of Vivien Willems👇 More info softbiocoll.com/
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Publication Alert!🎉 🚀🧪 New paper out! @softmatter We show that Janus lipid vesicles can self-propel under AC electric fields, exhibiting run-and-tumble dynamics—just like bacteria, but driven by membrane-phase behavior. 👉 Read here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
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Why it’s exciting: - First time showing tunable run-and-tumble behavior in synthetic, soft lipid vesicles systems - Reorientation is membrane-driven - Behavior is encoded in lipid composition and electric field
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📄 Run-and-tumble dynamics of active giant vesicles Vivien Willem, @AlexBar90665370, Daniel Matoz-Fernandez, Gianna Wolifsberg, Eric R. Dufresne, @BaretJc , @LauraAlvarez_F @CRPP_Bx @univbordeaux 🧵 Thanks for reading! #SoftMatter #ActiveMatter #Biophysics
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The active softies of the group met some weeks ago to spend a nice evening together and enjoy some international delicacies!🧀🍷 What a blessing being surrounded by these amazing humans! If you want to know more about us, check the news on our website :) softbiocoll.com/general-5
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Demian Levis@demian_levis
7 May 2025
🚨 New paper in @PhysRevLett ! We show how motion induces a topological phase transition in 2D populations of oscillators with random frequencies 🌀: journals.aps.org/prl/abstrac… w YRouzaire PRahmani FPeruani @natxopago @UB_ICS @CUCA_labo @FisicaUB #ComplexSystems #ActiveMatter
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Publication Alert!📢 Check our new article by José in collab with @carlacolloids @LRodriguezArco M. Dijkstra R. Subert & M. Lopez. We engineering reversible 2D rod percolated networks! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti… #SoftMatter #Colloids
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Frequency acts as a selector: 🔻Low freq → dipolar-driven networks 🔺High freq → standing rods, disconnection Voltage tunes “stickiness.” Electric fields as on-demand glue. #Percolation #Electrokinetics
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Nature Physics@NaturePhysics
28 Mar 2025
How cells actively change their shape is an open question. Now, a reconstituted minimal cytoskeleton composed of microtubules and molecular motors is shown to produce membrane fluctuations that drive active shape changes in synthetic cells. nature.com/articles/s41567-0…

Active membrane deformations of a minimal synthetic cell

Nature Physics - How cells actively change their shape is an open question. Now, a reconstituted minimal cytoskeleton composed of microtubules and molecular motors is shown to produce membrane...

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Emanuela Del Gado@emanueladelgado
23 Feb 2025
Excited about discoveries of topological motifs in complex network materials! If you have not read the beautiful paper by Giorgia Palombo, Simon Weir, ⁦@Dmichiel1⁩, and Yair Fosado nature.com/articles/s41563-0… yet, please do! This is just my teaser … nature.com/articles/s41563-0…

Topological linking determines elasticity in limited valence networks

Nature Materials - Experiments and simulations of DNA nanostar hydrogels reveal that microscopic topology determines macroscale elasticity in amorphous networks.

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