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We investigate the dynamics of freely expanding liquid sheets prepared with fluids with different rheological properties, (i) viscous fluids with a zero-shear viscosity $\eta_0$ in the range $(1-1000) \, \mathrm{mPa.s}$ and (ii) viscoelastic Maxwell fluids whose elastic modulus, $G_0$, characteristic relaxation time, $\tau$, and zero-shear viscosity, $\eta_0=G_0 \tau$, can be tuned over several orders of magnitude. The sheets are produced by impacting a drop of fluid on a small cylindrical solid target. For viscoelastic fluids, we show that, when $\tau$ is shorter than the typical lifetime of the sheet ($\sim 10$ ms), the dynamics of the sheet is similar to that of Newtonian viscous liquids with equal zero-shear viscosity. In that case, for little viscous samples ($\eta_0 <\sim 30$ mPa.s), the maximal expansion of the sheet, $d_{\rm{max}}$, is independent of $\eta_0$, whereas for more viscous samples, $d_{\rm{max}}$ decreases as $\eta_0$ increases. We provide a simple model to account for the dependence of the maximal expansion of the sheet with the viscosity that is based on an energy balance between inertia, surface tension and viscous shear dissipation on the solid target, and which accounts well for our experimental data. By contrast, when $\tau$ is longer than the typical lifetime of the sheet, the behavior drastically differs. The sheet expansion is strongly enhanced as compared to that of viscous samples with comparable zero-shear viscosity, but is heterogeneous with the occurrence of cracks, revealing the elastic nature of the viscoelastic fluid.

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Biophysical approach of the mucociliary function: Mucus rheology and beating coordination

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The Continuous Droplet Interface Crossing Encapsulation (cDICE) is an easy and robust method for producing, at high yield, monodisperse lipid vesicles with a controlled content as well as capsules with a designed shell. It consists in forcing a droplet through an interface between two imiscible fluids, using an external force such as centrifugation. At high inertia, the droplet entrain fluid that will constitute the shell of the capsule. At low inertia, the presence of amphiphile and the deformable interface interactions lead to monolayers zipping and formation of an amphiphile bilayer around the droplet. We will discuss the physical mechanisms involved in the production of both cDICE vesicles (low droplets inertia) and capsules (at high inertia), and the potential applications of this method. This method founds indeed many applications in biomimetics as it allows to encapsulate various biological solutions (biopolymers, hemoglobin, colloids, polymeric gels, cells. . . ) in membranes that can be composite and/or assymetric, or polymeric, and in the field of microencapsulation.

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The nature of the interface between two fluids has been the subject of an extensive investigation for more than two centuries [1]. From a mechanical point of view, surface tension can be calculated as an integral of unbalanced tangential stresses over the interface thickness [2] and it is thus of no surprise that, within the assumption of temporal and local equilibrium, such a tension can be ascribed to an interface between two miscible fluids [3] and assumes a nonzero value. The idea that there are capillary forces at work in the layer between miscible liquids goes back at least to an 1871 report of J. Bosscha, cited in a paper of Korteweg [1901], who was the first [4] to introduce stresses due to concentration inhomogeneities in the Navier-Stokes equation, aiming to mimic capillarity effects between two miscible liquids. Only much more recently experimental effort has been made to investigate the existence and the nature (the sign) of such off-equilibrium tension [5-11]. In all cases the authors have pointed out that such interfacial stresses mimic a positive interfacial tension. In analogy with the surface tension of an equilibrium interface between immiscible fluids, the effective surface tension has been rationalized within an approximation of small concentration gradients via the so called square gradient model [6,8,9]. The latter predicts a quadratic dependence of such tension on the compositional mismatch between two miscible fluids.Only very recently colloids and polymer suspensions in contact with a reservoir of solvent have been considered as a model two-fluid system to study off-equilibrium surface tensions [11, 12]: indeed, diffusion is much slower in colloids and polymers as compared to atomic systems, leaving a wider temporal window for probing the transient interface between miscible fluids. In a recent work [11] we have investigated off-equilibrium surface tension between microgel suspensions and their solvent (water) showing that equation (1) holds for low concentration gradients. On the other hand we have also pointed out that the square gradient model is far to catch the volume fraction dependence of the tension for compact hard sphere-like particles [12] up to concentrations close to the maximum packing for spheres. The scenario is then currently controversial.By visualizing viscous fingering instability (VF), appearing when a solvent displaces a suspension in radial Hele-Shaw geometry, we measure interfacial tensions in function of the volume fraction of the suspended colloids or polymers, showing that the internal degrees of freedom of the particles drive the low volume fraction behavior. Our results support the existence of a positive tension between miscible fluids, confirm the quadratic scaling predicted by Korteweg [4] for long linear and crosslinked polymers and show a positive rapidly growing tension for hard sphere suspensions, whose description necessitates a theoretical framework going beyond the classic square gradient model. We rationalize our findings assuming the suspension/solvent interface in local thermodynamic equilibrium, computing explicitly the square gradient contribution to the interfacial tension for polymer/solvent and simple molecular liquid mixtures and proposing a new phenomenological model capturing the compositional dependence of the interfacial tension for large concentration gradients. In addition to that we include and analyze data reported in literature and obtained via spinning drop tensiometry, validating our approach. We conclude proposing very generally the analysis of hydrodynamic instabilities as a new tool to measure interfacial stresses in complex fluids and characterize transient interfacial tensions.

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We report the measurement of non-equilibrium interfacial tension of polymer and hard sphere suspensions in contact with their own solvent. By visualizing fingering instability (VF) in radial Hele-Shaw geometry, we measure interfacial tension in function of the volume fraction of the suspensions showing that the internal degrees of freedom of the particles drive the magnitude of such tension. We rationalize our findings proposing a phenomenological model capturing the compositional dependence of the non equilibrium interfacial tension for the whole range of concentration gradients and for all the systems at hand. More generally we propose the analysis of fluid dynamic instabilities as a new tool to measure interfacial tensions between complex fluids.