I recently learned that Canada joined Horizon Europe as an associate country under Pillar 2. I am looking forward to submitting joint proposals and working on cool projects together with my European colleagues 😎 ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/h…

Shih-Yuan's awesome work on soft actuators (AKA ferromarbles) is on the arXIv!. These crazy guys can rock, roll, and hop - check it out here: arxiv.org/pdf/2410.07396

Congratulations to CEE and MIT EAPS Prof. Ruben Juanes, who has been named a 2024 fellow of the American Physical Society for his significant contributions in understanding how fluids move through porous materials. cee.mit.edu/ruben-juanes-n…

Long standing idea in the group that finally goes out! 😁We have now unraveled the mechanisms that control fluid-fluid reactions in two-phase flow in porous media. Congrats Xueyi Zhang Eawag ETH Zurich | Environmental Science & Technology pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Thrilled to see this paper published Physical Review X: Check it out at journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/1…! In it, we describe how growing mixed bacterial colonies can be thought of as multi-component "active fluids" that exhibit interfacial instabilities. Summary in the tweetorial below ⬇️

A new modeling approach describes why the interface between spatially-structured multi-species microbial communities transitions between stable smoothness and unstable finger-like protrusions. Read the paper: go.aps.org/40OU7KF

📢 PRFluids Editors' suggestion: Stafford & Matar Fluids Group from Imperial ChemEng explore the regimes of thin liquid films on rapidly spinning disks. Through experiments and simulations, they reveal the transition from 2D spirals to complex 3D waves. More @ go.aps.org/3XhhfAy

Finally published Science Magazine: Can AI help yield new insights from vast amounts of Earth data? We use large-scale data and neural nets to find the constitutive laws of glacial ice, which differ from commonly assumed forms in conventional models. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

In Science, researchers report a #physics-informed #DeepLearning model that can predict the deformation behavior of Antarctic ice shelves, revealing complexities of the process that extend beyond the traditional understanding. 📄: scim.ag/3XWfs3W #SciencePerspective:

Excited to release our latest work, led by PhD student Emily Chen: arxiv.org/abs/2504.02951! Here, we uncover how the unique rheological properties of wormlike micelles (WLM) influences their flow behavior in tortuous serpentine channels. 🪱💧🌪️ Tweetorial follows... [1/7]

Our new paper describes a synthetic "cell" that moves over superhydrophobic surfaces. It consists of an H2O2 drop and a chemical garden tube that spins like a propeller or orbits around a large O2 bubble; bursting causes repeating cm motion. #SoftMatter doi.org/10.1039/D5SM00…

🚀 New in InterPore Journal: Transfer learning enables fast & accurate predictions of effective thermal conductivity (ETC) in digital porous media. Less data. Lower cost. High fidelity. 🔮 👉 Read the study: doi.org/10.69631/ipj.v…