Antoine Deblais
@antoinedeblais.bsky.social
Assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam. In love with fluids 💧, Worms 🪱, and 🤖. Ig-Nobel 2024 for racing sober and drunk worms.
Group website: https://www.deb-lab.com/
Group website: https://www.deb-lab.com/
Why? Check our preprint:
arxiv.org/abs/2407.18805
arxiv.org/abs/2407.18805
Locomotion of Active Polymerlike Worms in Porous Media
We investigate the locomotion of thin, living \textit{T.~Tubifex} worms, which display active polymerlike behavior, within quasi-2D arrays of pillars with different spatial arrangements and densities....
arxiv.org
February 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Why? Check our preprint:
arxiv.org/abs/2407.18805
arxiv.org/abs/2407.18805
(ii) Lowering the worms' activity—whether by getting them drunk 🍺 or chilling them down 🥶—unexpectedly leads to higher diffusion! 🤯
We also compared our experimental findings with the tangentially driven polymer model.
We also compared our experimental findings with the tangentially driven polymer model.
February 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
(ii) Lowering the worms' activity—whether by getting them drunk 🍺 or chilling them down 🥶—unexpectedly leads to higher diffusion! 🤯
We also compared our experimental findings with the tangentially driven polymer model.
We also compared our experimental findings with the tangentially driven polymer model.
(i) Unlike their passive counterparts, living polymers spread faster in disordered media than in ordered media. Even more intriguingly, in disordered media, they move faster as the medium becomes denser, defying the common intuition that "the more crowded it is, the slower you go".
February 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
(i) Unlike their passive counterparts, living polymers spread faster in disordered media than in ordered media. Even more intriguingly, in disordered media, they move faster as the medium becomes denser, defying the common intuition that "the more crowded it is, the slower you go".
May I join? 🙏
November 22, 2024 at 7:14 PM
May I join? 🙏