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The talk is divided into two parts. First, I will show some experimental results obtained in my group on the Brownian dynamics of micrometric spherical silica colloids trapped at a planar air-water interface. The particle contact angle is finely tuned in the range 30°-140° by surface treatments and measured in situ at 0.5° resolution by a homemade Vertical Scanning Interferometer. Translational diffusion coefficients of colloids trapped at the water interface are obtained by particle tracking video-microscopy. Counter-intuitively, the diffusion coefficient decreases when the contact angle increases (i.e. when particles are less immersed in water and more in air). To explain the slowing down of the diffusion, I will discuss the effects of the hydrodynamic friction together with an extra friction term originating from the contact line fluctuations. The second part of the talk deals with the active motion of Janus colloids. Here, we have investigated the motion of self-propelled colloids at the air-water interface, where particles have been confined. The interplay of colloid’s self-propulsion, given by an asymmetric catalytic reaction occurring on the colloid, and interfacial frictions controls the direction and the speed of the movement. Two dimensional motion of micron-sized Silica-Platinum Janus colloids have been experimentally measured by particle tracking video-microscopy under increasing concentration of the catalytic fuel, i.e. H2O2,. Compared to previous bulk investigations, we observe a dramatic enhancement both of the length of trajectories travelled by particles and the speed. The slowing down of the rotational diffusion at the interface, also measured experimentally, plays a pivotal role in the control and enhancement of active motion.

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Dynamics of partially wetted colloids at the interface between two fluids is a crucial and timeliness topic: for instance, it governs the behavior of kinetically arrested colloidal gels, the formation of bacteria based biofilm and the cellular signaling via membrane proteins. Moreover, this subject is also challenging from a theoretical point of view because of the complexity of hydrodynamics at the interface and of the unexplored role of the contact line [1]. Despite this great interest, the behavior of a single particle at a fluid interface was never directly characterized. In this contribution, the dynamics of micrometric spherical silica particles trapped at a flat air-water interface is fully addressed. The particle contact angle θ is finely tuned in the range 30°-140° by surface treatments and measured in situ at 0.5° resolution by a homemade Vertical Scanning Interferometer [2]. The particle dynamics and translational diffusion coefficients are obtained by particle tracking. Counter-intuitively, and against all hydrodynamical models [3], the diffusion is much slower than expected; the drag exerted on the particle increases when the particle is less immersed in water. To explain this extra dissipation we devised a model considering the effect related to surface waves. Such waves are generated by the thermally activated triple line jumps between hydrophilic sites of the particle surface [4]. The total friction is thus coherent with the measured particle diffusion, and in particular with its slowing down at large contact angles. The jump lengths λ are consistent with the Cassie - Baxter model of an heterogeneous surface characterized by an intrinsic roughness and by hydrophobic and hydrophilic patches. [1] D. M. Kaz, R. McGorty, M. Mani, M. P. Brenner, V. N. Manoharan, Nature materials, 11.2, 138-142 (2011). [2] C. Blanc et al., Phys.Rev. Lett.,111, 058302 (2013). [3] T. M. Fischer, P. Dhar, P. Heinig, T, J.Fluid. Mech., 558, 451-475 (2006). [4] T. Blake, J.Colloid Interface Sci., 299, 1-13 (2006).

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The dynamics of colloids at the interface between two fluids is a crucial and timeliness research topic as it governs the behavior of kinetically arrested colloidal gels in interfacial microrheology, the formation of bacteria based biofilm and the cellular signaling via membrane proteins. Moreover, this subject is also challenging from a theoretical point of view because of the complexity of hydrodynamics at the interface and of the unexplored role of the contact line. Despite this great interest, the behavior of a single particle at a fluid interface was never directly characterized. In this contribution, the Brownian motion of micrometric spherical silica beads at a flat air-water interface is addressed. We fully characterize and control all the experimentally relevant parameters. The particle contact angle is finely tuned in the range 30-140° by surface treatments and measured in situ at 1° resolution by a homemade Vertical Scanning Interferometer. The particle dynamics and translational diffusion coefficients are obtained by particle tracking. Counter-intuitively, and against all hydrodynamical models, the diffusion is much slower than expected; the drag exerted on the particle increases when the particle is less immersed in water. To explain this extra dissipation we devised a model considering the effect related to thermally activated fluctuations of the interface at the triple line. Such fluctuations couple with the lateral movement of the particle via tiny random forces that add to the ones due to the shocks of surroundings molecules. Fluctuation-dissipation theorem allows obtaining the extra friction associated to this additional mechanism. The obtained total friction is thus in agreement with the measured particle diffusion, and in particular with its slowing down at large contact angles. The physical origin of the fluctuations is discussed in the two extreme limits: of a moving line using the generally accepted Blake molecular kinetic theory and of a pinned line taking into account the role of capillary fluctuation at the interface. Both of them lead to the right order of magnitude for the extra dissipation and can capture the measured dynamics.

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We have extended Laser Doppler holographic microscopy to transmission geometry. The technique is validated with living fish embryos imaged by a modified upright bio-microcope. By varying the frequency of the holographic reference beam, and the combination of frames used to calculate the hologram, multimodal imaging has been performed. Doppler images of the blood vessels for different Doppler shifts, images where the flow direction is coded in RGB colors or movies showing blood cells individual motion have been obtained as well. The ability to select the Fourier space zone that is used to calculate the signal, makes the method quantitative.

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We propose a three-dimensional holographic reconstruction procedure applicable with no a priori knowledge about the recording conditions enabling distortion-free three-dimensional object reconstruction.

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An experimental study on how reconstructed image signal and noise scale with acquisition and reconstruction parameters is proposed. Monte-carlo simulation is performed to emphasize that the measured noise is shot-noise.