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When bacteria play marbles
The formation of dense phases in systems containing self-propelled agents is a fascinating phenomenon of active matter. Our recent experiments show that swimming bacteria induce the clustering of micrometer-sized beads, yielding giant clusters up to several millimeters, visible to the naked eye. This clustering process follows a self-similar dynamics analogous to the Ostwald ripening mechanism without apparent saturation. These observations are very promising for the generation of large structures of passive colloidal particles.
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We moved to our new building |
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Since March 2019, the laboratory FAST has moved to the new building Pascal (building 530).
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