LIED (UMR 8236) – Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Énergies de Demain

Photonastic materials convert light into mechanical energy, mimicking how flowers and plants move in response to sunlight. This study focuses on polymeric photoactuators with potential applications in microfluidics, biomedicine, soft robotics, and light-driven motors. In this project, we propose to […]

The present work explores a unique yet unexplored synergy between the properties of laser micropatterned metallic surfaces and the requirements for an autonomous dew water harvesting candidate material. Laser‐patterned aluminum surfaces achieved simultaneously high infrared emissivity (up to […]

There is a growing interest to harvest water from the air by passive means (dew). However, there is surprisingly up to now no universal reference measurement for dew. The main difficulty is obtaining well-defined radiative cooling and heat exchange with air. For this purpose we report here a […]

In the context of passive atmospheric water harvesting, the thermal performance of planar dew condensers is primarily governed by radiative cooling and convective heat exchange with air. This study investigates the key parameters controlling dew condensation on a tilted plane, with particular […]

Mechanized agriculture relies heavily on fossil fuels for field operations, while facing decarbonization and environmental sustainability challenges. Phasing out fossil fuels requires alternative energy supply that can provide sufficient power to perform field tasks. However, the variability of […]

Urban greening is increasingly recognized as a nature-based solution (NBS) to address climate adaptation, social equity, and biodiversity conservation challenges. This study explores the innovative potential of schoolyards as key elements of urban green infrastructure (GI) to enhance ecological […]

Generative models of network formation can offer heuristic explanations for microscopic mechanisms that give rise to the large-scale structures observed in empirical data. Yet, most existing models generate pairwise networks, while many social and physical systems involve interactions in groups. […]

Recombination suppression often evolves around sex-determining loci and extends stepwise, resulting in adjacent regions with different levels of divergence between sex chromosomes, called evolutionary strata. In Ascomycota fungi, evolutionary strata around the mating-type (MAT) locus have been […]

Cryptophycins are a group of cyclodepsipeptides that are among the most potent anti-proliferative agents ever described. The parent compound, cryptophycin-1 was isolated from two Nostoc cyanobacterial strains (ATCC 53789 and GSV224), and it binds tightly to tubulin, inhibits microtubule […]

Much of today's sustainability discourse emphasizes efficiency, clean technologies, and smart systems, but largely underestimates fundamental physical constraints relating to energy-matter interactions. These constraints stem from the fact that Earth is a materially closed yet energetically open […]

How living organisms utilize physical mechanisms to sense their environments and make informed decisions is an open question at the interface of biology and physics. In filamentous organisms like fungal hyphae, the decisions are taken by their growing tip cells and later imprinted onto the rest of […]

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