Rob Style

Group leader @ETH Zürich in the Department of Materials. Soft and Living Materials

[Rob Style @RobStyleSoftMat]

If you want to make hydrogels with cool microstructures, check out Yanxia's latest work in @acsnano. This shows simple rules for creating swiss-cheese hydrogels, and a nice way to make superabsorbing materials. @soft_isa @ETH_Materials -> https://t.co/iH4evJ00LE

[Rob Style @RobStyleSoftMat]

If you're interested in any aspect of freezing research, come join us at 'Ice at the Microscale' in Switzerland this summer: https://t.co/1b9noMtiTD

Registration is now open, with early bird discount until the end of May. #ice

[Rob Style @RobStyleSoftMat]

If you're interested in hydrogel mechanical or osmotic properties, check out @YanxiaFENG93's new paper:

https://t.co/PV3QjzuDz1

Yanxia showed how you can use freezing-point osmometry to measure these properties, and that classical hydrogel theory doesn't really work very well.

[Minghan_Hu @Minghan_Hu]

Super happy to share our recent work in Advanced Materials! We’ve created microcapsule arrays that autonomously “report” stress variations at the microscale by lighting up with various fluorescences.

[Rob Style @RobStyleSoftMat]

I'm co-organising a conference on ice physics in Switzerland next year in beautiful Ticino. Check out https://t.co/1b9noMtiTD for more details, and come join us for an amazing week!

[Laboratory of Soft and Living Materials @SoftLiv_Cornell]

Ever seen how elastomers fail?

🎉Thrilled to share our latest publication "Elastomers Fail from the Edge", led by Nan Xue, in @PhysRevX!

Find out how "edge" cracks play a key role in understanding this fracture process
@SoftLiv_Cornell @ETH_Materials @LASSP_Cornell @CornellMSE

[Rob Style @RobStyleSoftMat]

Super happy for our latest publication on freezing, showing how freezing and drying break wet materials in the same way. Great work from Shaohua Yang and Dominic Gerber:
https://t.co/3ykPkDquoH

[Rob Style @RobStyleSoftMat]

https://t.co/Jt5WazPwrZ
Come join our department!

[Etienne Jambon-Puillet @EJambonP]

Our paper on swimming active protein droplets is finally out! 🎊🎉
https://t.co/KAraORBem2
The main result is in the title: "Phase-separated droplets swim to their dissolution".
Explanations below 🧵👇
@SoftLiv_Cornell @ETH_Materials
@Cornell @CNRSingenierie
@NatureComms

[Physical Review X @PhysRevX]

The fracture properties of elastomers depend on sample thickness because of the surprisingly three-dimensional nature of the fracture process.

Read https://t.co/7RDyudFD4j

@RobStyleSoftMat @SoftLiv_Cornell @RongLong8 @RongLong8 @CornellMSE @CornellPhysics @CUEngineering

[Athina Anastasaki @AthinaAnastasa1]

Hate polymers? Help us destroy them with depolymerization and chemical recycling!

We have two fully funded PhD positions in Polymer Chemistry at ETH! Come be our colleague! @AnastasakiLab

https://t.co/Rlj77P5qYG

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[Rob Style @RobStyleSoftMat]

@Minghan_Hu Thanks Minghan!

[Rob Style @RobStyleSoftMat]

Dominic's latest work on freezing soft materials is out, and we're super happy to have it covered in Physics: https://t.co/86eNxgSkEP!

Check it out to see why freezing damage is more complex than you might think. @PhysRevLett @SoftLiv_Cornell

[Laboratory of Soft and Living Materials @SoftLiv_Cornell]

Very happy to see our new paper lead by Carla @carlacolloids out in Nature Materials! 🎉Find out all about how elastic microphase separation produces robust bicontinuous materials!

@NatureMaterials @ETH_Materials @CornellMSE

https://t.co/QyNEUJXdla

[Laboratory of Soft and Living Materials @SoftLiv_Cornell]

Etienne's @EJambonP and Eric's preprint "Phase-Separated Droplets Swim to Their Dissolution" is out! https://t.co/AVLME1ayvt
This new swimming mechanism that we call "dialytaxis" could impact intracellular transport and turn protein droplets into robots. @ETH_Materials @Cornell

[Rob Style @RobStyleSoftMat]

@DevilleSy I'm pretty sure he did..

[The Adhesion Society @adhesion_the]

We are so pleased to announce that Katharine Jensen of Williams College has been selected as the 2023 Adhesion Society Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award winner. Can't wait to hear her talk at our next meeting in Savannah!

[Rob Style @RobStyleSoftMat]

@adhesion_the @SMSLaboratory Nice one Mike!

[Rob Style @RobStyleSoftMat]

@DevilleSy I was getting regular updates from my PhD student, and getting huge FOMO...