Institut Charles Sadron Event

Fibrous media, and especially plant-based materials such as paper or cotton fabrics, are heavily used for a variety of applications, many involving an interaction with a liquid (e.g. liquid absorption, filtration of droplets from an aerosol...), in particular with liquid-air interfaces. In this talk, I will illustrate some of the mechanisms at play in such fiber- liquid interactions with several model experiments, starting from the absorption of a drop on a single fibre to the liquid-mediated interactions between several flexible fibres.