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Gallery of Soft Matter 2026
Highlighting the Work of Soft Matter Researchers
The Gallery of Soft Matter Physics is an image and video competition at the APS Global Physics Summit that showcases the elegance and aesthetics of soft matter and highlights the work of the soft matter community to fellow researchers and the general public.
Video Winner:
Photoelastic Particles in a Rolling Drum Video by Rylan Hodgson (University of Colorado - Boulder, ryho4570@colorado.edu)
To Clog or Not To Clog? Video by Ben McMillan, University of Cambridge, bm583@cam.ac.uk; Alban Sauret, UC Santa Barbara, asauret@ucsb.edu; Nathalie Vriend, CU Boulder, nathalie.vriend@colorado.edu<br>-->
The Life of a Thermal Marangoni Bubble Video by Saurabh Nath, Department of Mechanical Engineering, saurabhn@mit.edu; Ambre Bouillant, Physics of Fluids Group, Mesa+ Institute, University of Twente, ambrebouillant@gmail.com; Panlin Jin, PMMH, CNRS, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University; Guillaume Ricard, MSC, Université Paris Cité, CNRS; David Quéré, PMMH, CNRS, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, david.quere@espci.fr<br>-->
Image winners
Swelling-induced wrinkling of floating granules
Image by Juyeong Hong (Seoul National University, juyeonghong@snu.ac.kr)
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Starch Patterns Phase Transitions of DNA Nanostars
Image by Ian Lillie (University of San Diego, ilillie@sandiego.edu)
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All image submissions
Swelling-induced wrinkling of floating granules
Juyeong Hong (Seoul National University, juyeonghong@snu.ac.kr)
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Starch Patterns Phase Transitions of DNA Nanostars
Ian Lillie (University of San Diego, ilillie@sandiego.edu)
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A time crystal made of waves and grains
Mia Morrell (New York University, mcm8850@nyu.edu)
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Triblock copolymer phase seperation
Hala Farghaly (University of Houston, hafargha@cougarnet.uh.edu)
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Merons Mediate Re-ordering of Curved Rods Under Simple Shear
Nicholas Hackney (Sandia National Laboratories, nwhackn@sandia.gov)
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Patterns in Cake
Karolina Koutova (University of California Santa Barbara, kkoutova@ucsb.edu)
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Helical Flagella in Microtubule active matter
Ibrahim Abu-Hijleh (Georgia Institute of Technology, iabuhijleh3@gatech.edu)
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One way to Puncture the network
Jiyong Cheon (Georgia Tech, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, jcheon9@gatech.edu)
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Deformable particle simulations reveal that moving cells have plastic shapes
Gautham Gopinath (Yale University, gautham.gopinath@yale.edu)
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Blue Rondo à la Steppe
Tejasvi Venkat (Rutgers University, tkv15@scarletmail.rutgers.edu)
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Near-contact lubrication induces hydrodynamic stress
Ryker Fish (Colorado School of Mines, rfish@mines.edu)
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