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Pierre‐Gilles de Gennes

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1983

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Affiliations

Collège de France(Current)

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Pierre‐Gilles de Gennes is an author at Collège de France specializing in engineering, materials science, and soft matter.

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EngineeringMaterial ScienceSoft MatterMechanical EngineeringPolymer ScienceRheologyMechanicsPolymersFluid DynamicsApplied Physics

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1983–2008

22

Publications

22

Soft Matter (Nobel Lecture)

Pierre‐Gilles de Gennes · Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English · 1992 · 427 citations

Materials Science, Colloid Chemistry, Colloidal Material +14

Artificial muscles based on nematic gels

Pierre‐Gilles de Gennes, M. Hébert · Macromolecular Symposia · 1997 · 212 citations

Biopolymer Gel, Artificial Muscles, Engineering +14

Surface flows of granular materials: A modified picture for thick avalanches

Thomas Boutreux, Élie Raphaël, Pierre‐Gilles de Gennes · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics · 1998 · 108 citations

Engineering, Fluid Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering +16

Passive entry of a DNA molecule into a small pore

Pierre‐Gilles de Gennes · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1999 · 101 citations · Full text

Entangled polymers

Pierre‐Gilles de Gennes · Physics Today · 1983 · 98 citations

Materials Science, Elastic Network, Rheological Constitutive Equation +11

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