Some images from our science
Microfluidics and laser
Close-up view of the nacre platelets. Their surface is rough, providing friction when they slide over each other.
Dried colloidal structures
Particle tracking gone artistic
Condensation droplets
Vacancies in a tiny colloidal crystal
Ice-templated feature
Boron Nitride platelets
Plateau borders of a foam
Frozen colloids
Ice templated alumina
Ice-templated feature
Crack path in the synthetic nacre. The crack is deflected at every platelet, dissipating a lot of energy. © Florian Bouville
Emulsions observed by confocal microscopy
Ice-templated alumina
Oil droplets interacting with growing ice crystals
3D view of ice crystals by X-rays tomoraphy
Bubble in a colloidal suspension
Ice-templated alumina
The brick and mortar structure of the abalone shell. The protein layer, between the platelets, can clearly be observed here.
Crack deviation in our bioinspired ceramic
Ice templated alumina
Tiny heart in a colloidal suspension
The beautiful nacre of the abalone shell.
Ice templated alumina
Frozen emulsion observed by confocal microscopy
Freezing emulsion, confocal microscopy
Drying pattern of a colloidal suspension (confocal microscopy)
Frozen emulsion
Ceramic grain
Inside the confocal
The nacre in the abalone is growing layer by layer. We don’t have the time to do that.
Ice-templated feature
Dried colloids
Silica fiber sittting on a glass slide
Molecular dynamics model of the particles being moved around by the freezing interface
Atomic force microscopy of surface uplift in zirconia
Solidification microstructure seen by confocal microscopy
Frozen colloids
Ice templated alumina
Ice-templated alumina with facetted pores
Ice crystals growing in a colloidal suspension, observed by X-ray computed tomography.
Confocal microscopy of frozen stuff
Freezing under flow. The imprints of the crystals are all more or less parallel.
Frozen colloids
Colloids after drying, observed by confocal microscopy
Sylvain Deville 
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