Plant growth: a journey across scales
I will summarise recent progress in understanding plant growth from cell to tissue scale, with a focus on the rheology of the cell wall, the thin polysaccharide-made layer that surround plant cells. I will illustrate how this progress was enabled by experimental and theoretical approaches from soft matter, fluid mechanics, and statistical physics. I will notably present results from our group suggesting that growth involves a coupling between chemistry and mechanics of the cell wall and showing that growth varies with the scale at which it is observed.
Pattern formation in nature
Non-equilibrium dynamics of many-particle quantum systems and conservation laws
The Geometry and Topology of Soft Materials
A triangle’s a triangle no matter how small. Because of that we can use our macroscopic intuition and experience to understand molecular-scale matter. Dołącz do mojego cyrku!
Quantum Thermodynamics