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Instabilities in hydrogels or Collective behaviours in autonomous active particles (Harvard)

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Internship Proposal (Mahadevan’s lab/Harvard University)

Our group at Harvard is interested in self-organisation, hydrodynamic and
elasticity in artificial or biological systems (see http ://www.seas.harvard.edu/softmat/ for more information) with a theoretical, numerical and experimental approach. The projects we propose now, depending on the motivation and the skill of the candidate, can be related to instabilities in hydrogel or collective behaviour in an assembly of autonomous active particle :

  • Instabilities in hydrogels : We are studying pattern formation in
    a confined drying hydrogel. We have developed a method to measure
    water flow during the process and shown that we can obtain very rich
    morphologies that are only related to this flow and the confinement
    lengthscale.We propose to develop a microfluidic device with electrode
    to control the flow -and then the pattern- by using electro-osmosis.
  • Collective behaviours in autonomous active particles : The
    goal of this project is to study how environment affect collective behavior and how physics lead to emergent behaviour in systems where
    non-physical microscopic interaction are implemented, like in social
    insect, crowd, fish schooling, birds flocking, etc... We are currently
    building a swarm robotic system made of a large number of microrobots on which we are able to prevent local interaction rules. The
    idea is to devellop an out of equilibrum statistical physics approach to
    describes emergent behaviours in this system.

For more information, contact Baudouin Saintyves (bsaintyves@seas.harvard.edu).

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