Tête de Moine on the cover of PRL

 

Our work on the shaping of tête de moine  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.208201   (or you can check it here)

• is on the cover of PRL  https://journals.aps.org/prl/covers/134/20
• was selected as Editor’s suggestion
  
• and featured  in Physics   https://physics.aps.org/articles/v18/s6

We show that the cheese chip undergoes a very large plastic flow during scraping, which thickens (and shortens) more inside than close to the periphery. The distorted length distribution (metric) produces a complex shape, very similar to the lettuce or the edge of a plastic bag….