Engineering Mechanics of Soft Interfaces

Welcome to EMSI.
We study two things:
1. How things break
2. How dry things become wet and how wet things become dry

The EMSI Group

Our incredible team

Research

Our group has two research themes – how things break, and how they wet or dry

Publications

Our research is featured in several leading journals in different areas.

Wassim Dhaouadi at Nuit des Idees 2020 © IFT 2020

La nuit des Idees: Institut Francais Tunis

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Wassim Dhaouadi speaks about Bretherton's buoyant bubble at the Institut Francais Tunis – Nuit des Idees 2020

Contact line propagation beneath an impacting drop

16.01.20NewsResearch

Insight into dynamic contact line propagation beneath an impacting droplet from direct, nano-scale 3D microscopy

EPFL's student solves a 100-year-old physics enigma

02.12.19NewsResearch

An EPFL Bachelor’s student has solved a mystery that has puzzled scientists for 100 years. He discovered why gas bubbles in narrow vertical tubes seem to remain stuck instead of rising upwards. According to his research and observations, an ultra-thin film of liquid forms around the bubble, preventing it from rising freely. And he found that, in fact, the bubbles are not stuck at all – they are just moving very, very slowly.

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