Emilie Delplanque

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Emilie Delplanque is a rising leader in the emerging field of **metasurface tribology** and **soft materials engineering**, where she pioneers the rational design of frictional interfaces. Her most impactful work, "Designing metainterfaces with specified friction laws" (2024, 78 citations), introduces a groundbreaking, systematic methodology to engineer dry contact interfaces that obey pre-defined friction laws. This innovation is critical for optimizing next-generation devices, from high-precision touchscreens and haptic feedback systems to dexterous robotic hands, offering a path to fine-tune surface interactions that were previously unattainable. Complementing this, her research on "Solving curing-protocol-dependent shape errors in PDMS replication" (2022, 14 citations) addresses a fundamental challenge in soft robotics and microfluidics. By revealing how curing protocols induce shape distortions in PDMS—a ubiquitous elastomer—she provides essential guidelines for achieving faithful, high-fidelity replication down to the nanoscale. Delplanque’s work uniquely bridges theoretical design and practical fabrication, establishing her as a key figure in advancing the precision and functionality of soft, interactive surfaces and devices.