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  What does an ion feel at the electrochemical interface? Revisiting electrosorption through nonlocal electrostatics

  The traditional Gouy–Chapman–Stern theory has been effective in explaining the behavior of dilute electrolytes in the electrical double layer but falls short when it comes to describing how ions behave at the metal/electrolyte interface. This (...)

  
  
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  Dynamic Heterogeneity of Short Semi-crystalline Polymer Chains during Recrystallization

  The instant crystallization of semi-crystalline polymers have become possible following the recent advances in Fast Scanning Calorimetry (FSC) and enables to make a bridge between the time scale available experimentally with those accessible (...)

  
  
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  Self-aligning polar active matter

  Self-alignment describes the property of a polar active unit to align or antialign its orientation toward its velocity. In contrast to mutual alignment, where the headings of multiple active units tend to directly align with each other—as in (...)

  
  
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  Crystal structures of monomeric BsmI restriction endonuclease reveal coordinated sequential cleavage of two DNA strands

  BsmI, a thermophilic Type IIS restriction endonuclease from Bacillus stearothermophilus, presents a unique structural composition, housing two distinct active sites within a single monomer. Recognition of the non-symmetrical 5’-GAATGC-3’ (...)

  
  
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  Stationary and transient correlations in driven electrolytes

  Particle–particle correlation functions in ionic systems control many of their macroscopic properties. In this work, we use stochastic density functional theory to compute these correlations, and then we analyze their long-range behavior. In (...)

  
  
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  Harnessing DNA computing and nanopore decoding for practical applications: from informatics to microRNA-targeting diagnostics

  DNA computing represents a subfield of molecular computing with the potential to become a significant area of next-generation computation due to the high programmability inherent in the sequence-dependent molecular behaviour of DNA. Recent (...)

  
  
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  Swelling and Evaporation Determine Surface Morphology of Grafted Hydrogel Thin Films

  An article resulting from a collaboration between researchers at the gulliver and simm labs at espci, and the loma lab at université de bordeaux has been published in the journal langmuir (22 january 2025). For this collaboration, the (...)

  
  
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  Algebraic Depletion Interactions in Two-Temperature Mixtures

  The phase separation that occurs in two-temperature mixtures, which are driven out of equilibrium at the local scale, has been thoroughly characterized, but much less is known about the depletion interactions that drive it. Using numerical (...)

  
  
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  The glass transition in molecules, colloids and grains: universality and specificity

  We highlight certain key achievements in experimental work on molecular, colloidal and granular glassformers. This short review considers these three classes of experimental systems and focusses largely on the work of the authors and their (...)

  
  
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  Viscous tweezers: Controlling particles with viscosity

  control of particle motion is generally achieved by applying an external field that acts directly on each particle. here, we propose a global way to manipulate the motion of a particle by dynamically changing the properties of the fluid in (...)

  
  

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