What happens if you add highly swelling particles to silicone elastomer matrices? You get Hydroelastomers! Check out our new Soft Matter paper in collaboration with @SoftLiv_ETH and SMaL . pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Congratulations to Rob Style who got an SNF grant Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF) for two PhD students to investigate #freezing #water in #soft materials! 🔬⛄️🎉 ETH Department of Materials ETH Zürich Video credit: Dominic Gerber, Rob Style (showing freezing salt water)

I'm looking for a motivated PhD student to work with me on the freezing of Soft Matter ETH Department of Materials . If you know anyone who might be interested, please do encourage them to apply: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_…

We are so pleased to announce that Katharine Jensen of Williams College has been selected as the 2023 Adhesion Society Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award winner. Can't wait to hear her talk at our next meeting in Savannah!

Etienne's Etienne Jambon-Puillet and Eric's preprint "Phase-Separated Droplets Swim to Their Dissolution" is out! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… This new swimming mechanism that we call "dialytaxis" could impact intracellular transport and turn protein droplets into robots. ETH Department of Materials Cornell University

Very happy to see our new paper lead by Carla Carla Fernandez-Rico out in Nature Materials! 🎉Find out all about how elastic microphase separation produces robust bicontinuous materials! Nature Materials ETH Department of Materials Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell nature.com/articles/s4156…

Dominic's latest work on freezing soft materials is out, and we're super happy to have it covered in Physics: physics.aps.org/articles/v16/1…! Check it out to see why freezing damage is more complex than you might think. Physical Review Letters Laboratory of Soft and Living Materials

Hate polymers? Help us destroy them with depolymerization and chemical recycling! We have two fully funded PhD positions in Polymer Chemistry at ETH! Come be our colleague! ETH Polymeric Materials jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_… Please Retweet

The fracture properties of elastomers depend on sample thickness because of the surprisingly three-dimensional nature of the fracture process. Read go.aps.org/43tiSgg Rob Style Laboratory of Soft and Living Materials Rong Long Rong Long Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell Cornell Physics CU Boulder Engineering 🦬

Ever seen how elastomers fail? 🎉Thrilled to share our latest publication "Elastomers Fail from the Edge", led by Nan Xue, in Physical Review X! Find out how "edge" cracks play a key role in understanding this fracture process Laboratory of Soft and Living Materials ETH Department of Materials Lab of Atomic & Solid State Physics @ Cornell Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell

Our paper on swimming active protein droplets is finally out! 🎊🎉 nature.com/articles/s4146… The main result is in the title: "Phase-separated droplets swim to their dissolution". Explanations below 🧵👇 Laboratory of Soft and Living Materials ETH Department of Materials Cornell University CNRS Ingénierie Nature Communications

ethz.ch/en/the-eth-zur… Come join our department!

Super happy for our latest publication on freezing, showing how freezing and drying break wet materials in the same way. Great work from Shaohua Yang and Dominic Gerber: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

I'm co-organising a conference on ice physics in Switzerland next year in beautiful Ticino. Check out ice2025.ethz.ch for more details, and come join us for an amazing week!

Super happy to share our recent work in Advanced Materials! We’ve created microcapsule arrays that autonomously “report” stress variations at the microscale by lighting up with various fluorescences.

If you're interested in hydrogel mechanical or osmotic properties, check out Yanxia Feng's new paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps… Yanxia showed how you can use freezing-point osmometry to measure these properties, and that classical hydrogel theory doesn't really work very well.

If you're interested in any aspect of freezing research, come join us at 'Ice at the Microscale' in Switzerland this summer: ice2025.ethz.ch Registration is now open, with early bird discount until the end of May. #ice