The 2025-2026 PMMH internships booklet is ready! https://www.pmmh.espci.fr/Internships-at-PMMH

Benoit Roman (right), CNRS research scientist at PMMH and a member of the MecaWet team, has just been awarded the #CNRS Silver Medal. As a specialist in experimental mechanics involving large geometric deformations, he is recognized for his outstanding contributions to the field. Congratulations!

Comment naissent les dunes : un modèle pour comprendre les formes sableuses de taille métrique

https://www.espci.psl.eu/fr/actualites/2025/comment-naissent-les-dunes-un-modele-pour

Photo : J.M. Nield (Univ. Southampton)

Jishen's Tête de Moine #onthecover of #PRL ! 🙌 a PMMH-SIMM collaboration @espciparispsl.bsky.social‬ 👉 doi.org/10.1103/Phys...

Jishen's Tête de Moine #onthecover of #PRL ! 🙌 a PMMH-SIMM collaboration @espciparispsl.bsky.social‬ 👉 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.208201#scrapethecheese

The PMMH seminar on March 21 at 11am will be given by

Charlotte de Blois from FAST (Université Paris-Saclay), on

From Individual Polymers to Collective Behavior: Exploring Polymer Interactions

Abstract below. Zoom link upon request.

Polymers in solution exhibit complex behavior that arises

I will then report observations of spontaneous low-velocity waves in viscoelastic flows over microstructured surfaces, highlighting their connection to elastic turbulence (Figure 1 (b), OIST, Japan - C. De Blois, S. Haward, A. Shen).

I will first show how nanopore techniques, combined with an optical detection method, enable the characterization of polymer translocation at the molecular scale (Figure 1 (a), ENS de Lyon - C. De Blois, A. Favier, F. Montel).