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