Scientific publications
Peer reviewed publications
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Direct Measurement of Unsteady Microscale Stokes Flow Using Optically Driven Microspheres
Nicolas Bruot, Pietro Cicuta, Hermes Bloomfield-Gadêlha, Raymond E. Goldstein, Jurij Kotar, Eric Lauga and François Nadal
Phys. Rev. Fluids 6, 053102 (2021)
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Externally driven local colloidal ordering induced by a pointlike heat source
Nicolas Bruot and Hajime Tanaka
Phys. Rev. Research 1, 033200 (2019)
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Control of synchronization in models of hydrodynamically coupled motile cilia
Comm. Phys. 1, 28 (2018)
Armando Maestro, Nicolas Bruot, Jurij Kotar, Nariya Uchida, Ramin Golestanian and Pietro Cicuta
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The chimera state in colloidal phase oscillators with hydrodynamic interaction
Chaos 27, 123108 (2017)
Evelyn Hamilton, Nicolas Bruot and Pietro Cicuta
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Assessing the Collective Dynamics of Motile Cilia in Cultures of Human Airway Cells by Multiscale DDM
Biophys. J. 113(1), 109-119 (2017)
Luigi Feriani, Maya Juenet, Cedar J. Fowler, Nicolas Bruot, Maurizio Chioccioli, Steven M. Holland, Clare E. Bryant and Pietro Cicuta
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Long-range interactions, wobbles and phase defects in chains of model cilia
Phys. Rev. Fluids 1 081201(R) (2016)
Douglas R. Brumley, Nicolas Bruot, Jurij Kotar, Raymond E. Goldstein, Pietro Cicuta and Marco Polin
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Realizing the physics of motile cilia synchronization with driven colloids
Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys. 7, 323-348 (2016)
Nicolas Bruot and Pietro Cicuta
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Curvature-dependence of the liquid-vapor surface tension beyond the Tolman approximation
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 056102 (2016)
Nicolas Bruot and Frédéric Caupin
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Optimal Hydrodynamic Synchronization of Colloidal Rotors
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 228103 (2013)
Jurij Kotar, Luke Debono, Nicolas Bruot, Stuart Box, David Phillips, Stephen Simpson, Simon Hanna and Pietro Cicuta
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Emergence of polar order and cooperativity in hydrodynamically coupled model cilia
J. R. Soc. Interface 10, 20130571 (2013)
Nicolas Bruot and Pietro Cicuta
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Driving Potential and Noise Level Determine the Synchronization State of Hydrodynamically Coupled Oscillators
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 164103 (2012)
Nicolas Bruot, Jurij Kotar, Filippo de Lillo, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino and Pietro Cicuta
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Collective synchronization states in arrays of driven colloidal oscillators
New J. Phys. 14 105023 (2012)
Romain Lhermerout, Nicolas Bruot, Giovanni M. Cicuta, Jurij Kotar and Pietro Cicuta
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Noise and Synchronization of a Single Active Colloid
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 094101 (2011)
Nicolas Bruot, Loïc Damet, Jurij Kotar, Pietro Cicuta and Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino
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PhD thesis
Title: Hydrodynamic coupling and synchronization of colloidal oscillators
Released: 14/08/2013, updated: 21/11/2013
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Thesis realised at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge and supervised by Pietro Cicuta.
Examined by Eric Lauga and Miles Padgett.
Abstract:
Colloidal particles are driven by optical tweezers to understand the emergence of synchronization of oscillators present in the living world, such as cilia or flagella. Each oscillator is made of a single spherical colloidal particle driven by moving traps according to a prescribed rule. Different models of free-phase oscillators are built to study their synchronization properties. They show that the hydrodynamic coupling plays a key role in the synchronization of cilia and flagella. The simplicity of the models, allows to make quantitative estimates on the synchronization properties in several cases, including the effect of thermal noise, which is present at these micrometric length scales.
Other publications
Co-author of Annales corrigées des problèmes posés aux Concours 2013 at H&K editions
Solutions to exam papers to French Grandes Écoles.
- 2013, 2014: PC Physique et Chimie (ISBN: 978-2351412954)
- 2014: MP Physique et Chimie (ISBN: 978-2351412930)
Other communications
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Comment le sel fait-il fondre la glace ? (How does salt melts ice?)
Le progrès, 08/02/2015 (online and paper versions)
A newspaper article, for which I have been interviewed.
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