ODES-lab RESEARCH

FOOD & HEALTH                                AESTHETICS & BEAUTY                   ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY 

We elucidate the influence of size, shape, & interactions of dispersed phases (polymers, micelles, particles, proteins, drops, & bubbles) on stability, rheology, fizzics, processability, and applications of complex fluids, motivated by curiosities and challenges in nature and industry, especially for engineering plant-based foods & sustainable formulations.

 polymer and soft matter physics, fluid mechanics, extensional rheology, interfacial science, optics, biophysics,

scaling analysis, dimensional mechanics, instabilities & pattern formation.

FOOD SCI & BIOPHYSICS

Dairy & egg proteins | Plant-based proteins | Polysaccharides as food thickeners | Saliva, blood, mucous | Phospholipids, DNA, Bile.

DYNAMICS & RHEOLOGY

Shear and Extensional Rheology | Nonlinear Viscoelasticity | Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics | Pinching Dynamics

POLYMER PHYSICS 

Dynamics of Neutral and Charged Polymers |  Polyelectrolyte Physics | Polymer-surfactant Complexes | Stretched Polymer Physics 

INDUSTRIAL SOFT MATTER

Paints | Coatings | Soaps | Plant-based Milks | Vegan Mayo | Nali Lacquer | Processability

FIZZICS & COLLOIDS

DLVO & non-DLVO Surface Forces | Foam Film Stratification | Colloidal Dispersions | Adsorption Kinetics |  Micelleization | Complexation.

FIBER SCI. & ENG.

Centrifugal force spinning | Spinnability | Macromolecular engineering of fiber properties | Membrane engineering

DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS & MECHANICS

Scaling theory | Ohnesorge units | Spreading: atom bombs, drops, and cells | Physics of Explosions

Video lectures on YouTube

In collaboration with Marc-Antoine Fardin, Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS, Université Paris Cité & Mathieu Hautefeuille, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine, Sorbonne Université to illustrate the power and beauty of scaling theory or dimensional analysis methods. 

Drops: Spreading, pinching, and coalescence: the Ohnesorge units, Soft Matter, 2022.

The three amigos: Marc-Antoine Fardin, Mathieu Hautefeuille, and Vivek Sharma

STICKINESS, ADHESION, TACK & WETTING

 

STRUCTURAL COLOR IN BIOLOGY & BIOMIMICRY  

 

INSTABILITIES, NONLINEAR DYNAMICS & CHAOS

OF GROWTH & FORM: PATTERNS, ORDER & PACKING

The rheologically complex fluid beauty of nail lacquer formulations

L. M. Jimenez, C. D.V. Martinez Narvaez, C. Xu, S. Bacchi & V. Sharma, Soft Matter 2021

We welcome questions, suggestions, curiosities