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Benoît Roman

Laboratoire de Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes  - UMR  CNRS  7636
École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles
10, rue Vauquelin
75231 Paris Cedex 05 --- France
Tel :  (+33) (0)1 40 79 4721 (office) or 5107(lab)
Fax : (+33) (0)1 40 79 4523
e-mail: benoit   @   pmmh.espci.fr

Elasticity and capillarity	Cracks in thin sheets	Mechanical instabilities and biology	Buckling and crumpling
Wet hair clumps and self-folding drops	A wake in a solid ?	Garbage bags and lettuce leaves	Dynamics of singularities

Publications : A list

• May 2008 Nature Materials cover by Jacques Villegle.
• April 2008 Media report our study pointy tears : P.Reis interviewed by US National Public Radio NPR! we also appear in chilean newspaper El Mercurio and in (par D.Castelvecchi), MIT's website or Nanowerk spotligth.
• Scientific American awards us Scientific American 50 for 2007. SciAm50 "honors 50 individuals, teams, companies and other organizations whose accomplishments in research, business or policymaking during 2006-07 demonstrate outstanding technological leadership".
• july 2007 our Capillary Origami is cited in the press
• and more...

 Updated march 2007.