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Pairwise and Collective Behavior Between Model Swimmers at Intermediate Reynolds Numbers
Our paper on Pairwise and collective behavior between model swimmers at intermediate Reynolds numbers just appeared on the arxiv, check...
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Jun 20, 20231 min read


Phase Behavior and Surface Tension of Soft Active Brownian Particles
Our paper on Phase behavior and surface tension of soft active Brownian particles has been published in Soft Matter (2021 Soft Matter...
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Jun 20, 20231 min read


Fluid Inertia and the Scallop Theorem
Our paper on Fluid inertia and the scallop theorem has been submitted and is on the arXiv. This was a collaboration with Chris Rycroft...
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Jun 20, 20231 min read


Pairwise Interactions Between Model Swimmers at Intermediate Reynolds Numbers
How do mesoscale swimmers interact with one another when there is finite inertia? Do they repel, attract, how do they arrange? We...
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Jun 20, 20231 min read


Reciprocal Swimming at Intermediate Reynolds Numbers
Our paper on Reciprocal swimming at intermediate Reynolds numbers was published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. It was a fun...
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Nov 18, 20221 min read


Nick Lauersdorf Awarded 2021 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
Congratulations to our graduate student Nick Lauersdorf, who was awarded the 2021 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate...
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Apr 15, 20211 min read


Tom Kolb's Paper Published in Soft Matter
Tom Kolb's paper published in Soft Matter - check it out here ! December 20, 2019
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Dec 20, 20191 min read


Daphne's Perspective Article Appears in Soft Matter
Daphne's perspective article appears in Soft Matter and on the cover, check it out here ! As Above, So Below, and also in Between:...
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Nov 14, 20191 min read


Tom's Paper Appears on the arXiv
Tom's paper appears on the arXiv, check it out here ! Active binary mixtures of fast and slow hard spheres We computationally studied...
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Sep 9, 20191 min read


Thomas and Shannon's Paper Published Today in Phys. Rev. Fluids
We propose a reciprocal, self-propelled model swimmer at intermediate Reynolds numbers (Re). Our swimmer consists of two unequal spheres...
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Feb 8, 20191 min read


Paper on Self-Assembly of Thousands of Different Polyhedra Published in Soft Matter
Paper on self-assembly of thousands of different polyhedra published in Soft Matter and featured on the cover !
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Nov 21, 20181 min read


Daphne Gave a Talk at the 30th International Conference on Science and Technology of Complex Fluids
Daphne gave an invited talk at the 30th International Conference on Science and Technology of Complex Fluids that took place in San Luis...
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Jun 22, 20181 min read


Klotsa Lab Science Collaboration
Klotsa Lab convergent science collaboration read the article !
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Apr 20, 20181 min read


The Klotsa Lab Participated in Science is Awesome Day@UNC Organised by the Physics Department
The Klotsa Lab participated in Science is Awesome Day@UNC organized by the Physics Department . Three dual-language elementary schools...
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Mar 15, 20181 min read


The Group and Daphne Klotsa Just Received a NSF-CAREER Award
The group and Daphne Klotsa just received the NSF-CAREER award: From Single Swimmers to Swarms: A Computational Study of Mesoscale...
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Mar 6, 20181 min read


Tom Won First Prize in UNC-CHANL's 9th Annual Scientific Art Competition
Vector Sunset, Tom Kolb. "This work characterizes the struggles of a graduate student in the computational realm. The image illustrates...
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Feb 8, 20181 min read


Shannon Jones Just Submitted the First Group Paper
Shannon Jones just submitted the first group paper Transitions in motility mechanism due to inertia in a model self-propelled two-sphere...
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Jan 11, 20181 min read


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Nov 15, 20170 min read
Tom Kolb Received the NSF Graduate Fellowship
Tom Kolb received the NSF graduate fellowship, congratulations Tom :)
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Oct 31, 20171 min read
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