Nicolas Vandewalle becomes Francqui Research Professor The Francqui Foundation provides significant financial support to enable the professor to devote himself fully to his innovative research in physics.

For the next 3 years… www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_204710...

Measuring social interactions is a challenge. In our online game 2peeornot2pee.com, we explore the unwritten rules of public urinal use. From these choices, we infer repulsive social interactions—useful to model behavior in public spaces. Play the game and contribute to science!
#GRASP

The poster session at #STATPHYS29 was a fantastic experience! Our GRASP team (University of Liège – www.grasp.uliege.be) presented real-time experiments, which generated a lot of interest. We’re grateful for the valuable feedback and inspiring discussions with colleagues from across the globe.

After my talk at #STATPHYS29, we demoed our robotic platform GRASPion.be for active matter.
Great interactions, promising perspectives for GRASP’s ongoing projects.
Thanks to the GRASP.uliege.be team for the brilliant work!

#ActiveMatter #Robotics #GRASPion #Physics #Research #Uliege

Our army of GRASPions is ready! 🪖 Tiny vibrobots for active matter experiments : cheap, versatile, and open to collaboration. Explore more: www.graspion.be
#ActiveMatter #SoftRobotics #GRASPion

Ring of capillary actuators as trap, tweezers and ratchet for floating particles Scientific Reports - Ring of capillary actuators as trap, tweezers and ratchet for floating particles

🚀 Capillary Tweezers and Capillary Machines: A New Step Forward
📄 New paper in @SciReports: rdcu.be/eupkh
🗞️ Press release: www.grasp.uliege.be/cms/c_134884...
#SoftMatter #CapillaryMachines #GRASP #ULiège

Scientists are now sculpting water surfaces using tiny 3D-printed structures! This breakthrough helps passively move particles. Perfect for sorting microplastics @vdwnico.bsky.social #BrownUniversity #ULiège @nature.com
#ScienceInnovation #NatureCommunications
www.grasp.uliege.be/cms/c_134813...

Sculpting the surface of water YouTube video by Université de Liège

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3D-printed spines for programmable liquid topographies and micromanipulation - Nature Communications Controlling the movement of floating objects at small scales is essential for microfluidics, but traditional methods are limited by fluid and object properties. By shaping liquid interfaces with 3D-pr...

Our latest paper is out and highlighted byi
@NatureComms editors : sculpting water–air interfaces using capillary lattices. With 3D printing, you can tilt the liquid interface on demand! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

After some deep thinking about the good and the worst sides of social networks in science, I am ready to open a new chapter of my academic life…

Where is Nico ?