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
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