PhD thesis

" Mécanismes d'imprégnations : Surfaces Texturées, Bigouttes, Poreux " (3.7Mo) , 
Université de Paris VI (2000), in French.

Wetting on textured surfaces

J. Bico, C. Marzolin & D. Quéré, " Pearl drops ", Europhysics Letters, 47 220 (1999).

D. Quéré, J. Bico & D. Richard, " Le mouillage nul (ou presque) ", Bulletin de la Société Française de Physique , 125 8 (2000).

D. Quéré, J. Bico & D. Richard, "Three attempts on dry wetting", Nonlinear Wave Behavior in Multiphase Flow , Kluwer (2000).

J. Bico, C. Tordeux & D. Quéré, " Rough wetting ",Europhysics Letters, 55 214 (2001).

J.Bico, U.Thiele & D.Quéré, " Wetting of textured surfaces ", Colloid & Surfaces, 206 41 (2002).

D. Quéré, A. Lafuma & J. Bico, " Slippy and sticky microtextured struc tures ", Nanotechnology , 14 1109 (2003) .

D. Quéré & J. Bico, "Modulation du mouillage par des microtextures", La Houille Blanche, 4 21 (2003).

K. Lau, J. Bico, K. Teo, W. Milne, G. McKinley & K. Gleason, " Superhydrophobic carbon nanotubes forests ", Nano Letters, 3 1701 (2003).

Liquid trains / porous media

J. Bico & D. Quéré, " Liquid trains in a tube ", Europhysics Letters , 51 546 (2000)

J. Bico & D. Quéré, " Falling slugs ", J. Colloid Inter. Sci., 243 262 (2001).

J. Bico & D. Quéré, " Rise of liquids and bubbles in angular capillary tubes ", J.Colloid Inter. Sci. , 247 162 (2002).

J. Bico & D. Quéré, " Self-propelling slugs in a tube ", J. Fluid Mech . , 467 201 (2002).

J. Bico & D. Quéré, " Precursors of impregnation ", Europhysics Letters , 61 348 (2003).

J. Bico, B. Roman, L. Moulin & A. Boudaoud, " Elastocapillary coalescence in wet hair ", Nature, 432, 690 (2004).

S. Neukirch, B. Roman, B. de Gaudemaris & J. Bico, "Elasto-capillary interactions: Piercing an interface with an elastic rod", J. Mech. Phys. Sol. 55, 1212 (2007).

C. Py, R. Bastien, J. Bico, B. Roman & A. Boudaoud, " 3D aggregation of wet fibers ", Europhysics Letters, 77, 44005 (2007).

C. Py, P. Reverdy, L. Doppler, J. Bico, B. Roman & C.N.Baroud, " Capillary origami: spontaneous wrapping of a droplet with an elastic sheet ", Phys. Rev. Lett., 98, 156103 (2007).
Gallery of fluid motion, Phys. Fluids, 19, 091104 (2007). "Capillarity induced folding of elastic sheets", Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics, 166, 67 (2009).

popular versions in Physical Review Focus (by Neal Singer), Nature highlights, NewScientistTech, Materials Today (by Paula Gould), Science News (by Davide Castelvecchi), MRS Bulletin (by Arthur Feldman), Physorg.com, NouvelObs.com (by Cécile Dumas), Journal des Sciences du CNRS (interview), Journal du CNRS (by J.-F. Haït), La Recherche, Inovate!.

A. Boudaoud, J. Bico & B. Roman, "Elastocapillary coalescence: Aggragation and fragmentation with a maximum size", Phys. Rev. E, 76, 060102(R) (2007).

D. Vella, J. Bico, A. Boudaoud, B. Roman & P.M. Reis, "The macroscopic delamination of thin films from elastic substrates", PNAS, 106, 10901 (2009).
commentary by J.A. Rogers & Y. Huang, popular version by A. Trafton, MIT News Office.

L. Tanton-Elkins, P. Aussillous, J. Bico, D. Quéré & J. Bush, " A laboratory model of splash-form tektites ", Meteoritics and Planetary Sci. , 38 1331 (2003).

J. Bico, J. Vierling, A. Vigano, D. Quéré, " Self-similar etching ", J. Colloid Inter. Sci. , 270 247 (2004).

L. Mahadevan, J. Bico & G. McKinley, " Popliteal rippling of multi-walled elastic tubes ", Europhysics Letters, 65 323 (2004).

N. Kojić, J. Bico, C. Clasen & G. McKinley, " Ex-vivo Rheology of Spider Silk ", J. Exp. Biol., 209, 4355 (2006).
popular version from Deborah Halber, MIT News Office.

B. Roman & J. Bico, "Elasto-capillarity: deforming an elastic structure with a liquid drop".

M. Pineirua, F. Closa, B. Roman & J. Bico, "Actuating capillary origami with electrowetting".

S. Moshin, S. Young, B. Roman & J. Bico, "Liquid jet piercing an interface".

L. Du, J. Guilet, B. Roman & J. Bico, "Capillary zipping of rivulets".

A. Delbos, A. Juel, D. Bartolo, B. Roman & J. Bico, "Buckling of elastic rings under capillary surface pressure".

F. Chiodi, B. Roman & J. Bico, "Piercing an interface with a brush".

K. Njifenju, F. Besselièvre, G. Amselem, E. Andrès, J. Bico & M. Fermigier, "Windswept droplets".

K. Njifenju, M. Fermigier, J. Bico & E. Andrès, "Experimental investigation of liquid film in gravity-driven flow on an inclined glass substrate"