Smart, Living & Active Matter - Leiden

Leiden Institute of Physics

About us

The SLAM - Smart, Living, & Active Matter - initiative unites theory and experimental groups of the Leiden Institute of Physics. It currently gathers the groups of Luca Giomi, Louise Jawerth, Daniela Kraft, Martin van Hecke, Silke Henkes and Alexandre Morin.

SLAM symposium on Active Solids

The SLAM symposium on Active Solids which took place on June 4th was a succes!

Coming up next

2024-11-21 - 13:30 @ Gorter room

SLAM seminar: Uddalok Sen (Louise's guest)

Title: Salt-rimmed glass: is it a creep or is it a weirdo?

Abstract: Confined evaporation of multiphase multicomponent systems has recently garnered significant attention not only due its numerous practical applications, but also as a model system to study complex interface growth and interfacial self-assembly dynamics. Here, we focus on a canonical system for confined evaporation – evaporation from one end of a liquid-filled capillary. In the first part of the talk, I’ll focus on the evaporation of a binary fluid mixture, where the composition-dependent evaporation kinetics was found to exhibit three different temporal regimes. Along the way, we revisit the age-old question: “Is evaporation really a slow process?” In the second part, we focus on the evaporation of salty liquids, where the liquid front exhibits non-monotonic dynamics, unlike multifluid systems. Curiously, we further observe that evaporation, in fact, is not the dominant mechanism of liquid loss in such systems. Finally, we will also attempt to answer the question: “Do salt crystals experience rush hour?”