Prof. Martine Ben Amar

Research interests

• Physics of the biological membrane and the cell
• Nonlinear physics and instabilities
• Growth of soft tissues
• Dynamics of the moving contact line

Recent Publications (full list)

• "Conical Defects in Growing Sheets"
  Martin Michael Müller, Martine Ben Amar, and Jemal Guven
  Phys. Rev. Lett., 101 (2008) 156104.

• "Morphogenesis of growing soft tissues"
  J. Dervaux and M. Ben Amar
  Phys. Rev. Lett., 101 (2008) 068101.

• "Roughness of moving elastic lines: Crack and wetting fronts" (PDF)
  E. Katzav, M. Adda Bedia, M. Ben Amar, and A. Boudaoud
  Phys. Rev. E, 76 (2007) 051601.

• "Stokes instability in inhomogeneous membranes: Application to lipoprotein suction of cholesterol-enriched domains"
  M. Ben Amar, J. M. Allain, N. Puff, and M. Angelova
  Phys. Rev. Lett., 99 (2007) 044503.

• "Periodic lipid membrane tubes" (PDF)
  F. Campelo, J.-M. Allain, and M. Ben Amar
  Europhys. Lett., 77 (2007) 38006.

External Collaborators

• Jean-Marc Allain (Ecole Polytechnique)
• Anke Lindner and Eric Clément (ESPCI)
• D. Bonn (University of Amsterdam)
• Alain Goriely and Michael Tabor (Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona)
• Anne-Marie Cazabat (LPS)
• Yves Pomeau