Molecular motors are essential to the living, generating fluctuations that boost transport and
assist assembly. Active colloids, that consume energy to move, hold similar potential for man …

Bent-Shaped Liquid Crystals: Structures and Physical Properties provides insight into the
latest developments in the research on liquid crystals formed by bent-shaped mesogens …

Femtosecond time-resolved x-ray diffraction is used to study a photoinduced phase
transition between two charge density wave (CDW) states in 1 T-TaS 2, namely the nearly …

Spontaneous generation of macroscopic homochirality in soft matter systems by self‐
assembly of exclusively achiral molecules under achiral conditions is a challenging task with …

The two-dimensional (2D) Ising model is the statistical physics textbook example for phase
transitions and their kinetics. Quenched through the Curie point with Glauber rates, the late …

Le présent article donne une brève description du processus de formation de motifs et du
phénomène de coarsening; il met l'accent sur les développements expérimentaux et …

We study the transient between a fully disordered initial condition and a percolating structure
in the low-temperature non-conserved order parameter dynamics of the two-dimensional …

Understanding grain growth is key for controlling the microstructure and the mechanical
properties of most polycrystalline materials, including metals, alloys, and ceramics …

We study the geometric properties of polymixtures after a sudden quench in temperature.
We mimic these systems with the q-states Potts model on a square lattice with and without …

These lecture notes give a very short introduction to coarsening phenomena and summarize
some recent results in the field. They focus on three aspects: the super-universality …