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Do you think 3D tracking of Janus colloids requires fancy equipment? Think again! We present to you a Machine Learning approach to track Janus microswimmers in 3D, using standard wide-field microscopy images: doi.org/10.1039/D2SM00… Congrats for another nice paper, Max!

Last week part of our group went to Crete to attended ecis2022 European Colloid & Interface Society Conf A week full of great talks, inspiring poster presentations, fruitful scientific interchange, as well as delicious Greek food and wonderful landscapes. A big thanks to all participants and especially the organizers!

👩🏻‍🔬CFM´s Highlights 2021 🔬17/20 by the polymers and Softmatter group in Nature Communications "Reconfigurable artificial microswimmers with internal feedback" cfm.ehu.es/highlights/rec… Soft Materials and Interfaces (Prof. Lucio Isa) ETH Department of Materials Universidad Granada UPV/EHU @csic

Read our #interview with former Marie Curie fellow Prof Lucio Isa. bit.ly/3RV9ETa #MSCA @MSCAActions Soft Materials and Interfaces (Prof. Lucio Isa) Isabelle Spühler #HorizonEU

Who said wrinkles are ugly? We think the SEM image below proves the opposite! Now in our latest article Soft Matter A facile one pot synthesis route to form silica particles with controlled corrugated surfaces. An ode to wrinkles. Congrats Vincent & Chiao! doi.org/10.1039/D2SM00…

Interested in joining my lab at ETH in Switzerland? Check out these positions. 1. Stem cell technology (Postdoc) shorturl.at/aCRS4 2. Synthetic biology for living materials (PhD) shorturl.at/eJRZ8 3. Mechatronics for biosystems (PhD) shorturl.at/bGW04 Pls RT!

Just published and #openaccess, Tracking Janus microswimmers in 3D with machine learning led by Maximilian Robert Bailey, Fabio Grillo and Lucio Isa Soft Materials and Interfaces (Prof. Lucio Isa) doi.org/10.1039/D2SM00…

We happy to announce that Jacopo got awarded the best oral prize at the Italian Soft Days conference with his talk "Controlling the three-dimensional shape of soft particles at fluid interfaces and how this affects their two-dimensional assembly"! sites.google.com/site/italianso…

Congrats to Jacopo and Shiva for demonstrating that atomic force microscopy can be used for the in situ reconstruction of the three-dimensional conformation of model microgels adsorbed at an oil-water interface! Now out in Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Max's paper "Fitting an active Brownian particle's mean-squared displacement with improved parameter estimation" has been selected to be an Editor's suggestion! Physical Review E Just another reason to check it out ;) journals.aps.org/pre

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We use capillarity-assisted particle assembly (CAPA) and two-photon polymerization direct laser writing (2PP-DLW) to realize a new class of multimaterial microstructures. Read about it, or look at some pretty pictures: doi.org/10.1002/adma.2… Congrats Steven en Xueting!

Congrats to Xuething for recieving this year's SVMT Prize for an outstanding MSc's thesis! She performed her MSc's thesis entitled "Novel approaches for the fabrication of multi-material micro-structures via two-photon-lithography" in our group under the supervision of Steven.

We build soft, responsive microswimmers that can sense the temperature of their environment. Learn all about it: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Congratulations to Steven, hard work finally pays off!

Interested in 3D rotational tracking of colloids? In our most recent paper, we propose a new algorithm that enables us to track the 3-D rotation of rough colloids at short time-scales, using time series of 2-D microscopy images. Now out in Soft Matter ! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Isn't this a piece of art? We study interacting boojum defects in nematic Liquid Crystal films, mediated using tailored arrays of silica spheres. Now out in JCIS @ScienceDirect. Congrats to Zazo Meijs and our collaborators from the SMA Group KAISTPR! doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis…

We use a polymer-bridge-based approach to stick a wide range of nanoparticles onto microparticle supports. Using this approach we decorate microparticles with composit films, and synthesize multifunctional designer microswimmers. Read about it Chemistry of Materials doi.org/10.1021%2Facs.…

We are delighted that Vincent's latest Soft Matter article has been selected by the Editors as HOT, and FREE to access now! Another reason to check it out ;) Find the article here: xlink.rsc.org/?doi=10.1039/D…

Congrats to our brilliant postdoc Minghan_Hu, who has been awarded the prestigious Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione grant! He will soon start his independent research at D-MAVT, ETH Zurich. Hard work and dedication is being recognized. Keep on shining bright and making great contributions to science!

It is a great honor to publish my first “microswimmers” paper in JPCM special issue "Emerging Leader"! Grateful for the opportunity to contribute to soft matter community and the support from Lucio Soft Materials and Interfaces (Prof. Lucio Isa)!