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Elastocapillary adhesion of soft gel microspheres
Joseph N. Headley, Edgar W. Lyons, Mathew Q. Giso +6
Softer means stickier for solid adhesives, because material compliance facilitates close contact between non-conformal surfaces. Recent discoveries have revealed that soft material…
The Physics of Soft Adhesion
Katharine E. Jensen, Chelsea S. Davis
This review provides an introduction to the essential physics of soft adhesion, including the thermodynamics of adhesion and wetting, the mechanics of contact with deformable mater…
Active fluid networks excite visco-elastic modes for efficient transport
Adam B. Dionne, Katharine E. Jensen, Henrik Ronellenfitsch
Active fluid transport is a hallmark of many biological transport networks. While animal circulatory systems generally rely on a single heart to drive flows, other organisms employ…
How a leak can stop itself
Caroline D. Tally, Heather E. Kurtz, Rose B. Tchuenkam +2
Small fluid leaks are common and frequently troublesome. We often consider how to stop a leak, but here we ask a different question: how might a leak stop itself? We experimentally…
Viscoelastic and poroelastic relaxations of soft solid surfaces
Qin Xu, Lawrence A. Wilen, Katharine E. Jensen +2
Understanding surface mechanics of soft solids, such as soft polymeric gels, is crucial in many engineering processes, such as dynamic wetting and adhesive failure. In these situat…
Singular dynamics in the failure of soft adhesive contacts
Justin D. Berman, Manjari Randeria, Robert W. Style +6
We characterize the mechanical recovery of compliant silicone gels following adhesive contact failure. We establish broad, stable adhesive contacts between rigid microspheres and s…
Strain-dependent solid surface stress and the stiffness of soft contacts
Katharine E. Jensen, Robert W. Style, Qin Xu +1
Surface stresses have recently emerged as a key player in the mechanics of highly compliant solids. The classic theories of contact mechanics describe adhesion with a compliant sub…
Direct Measurement of Strain-dependent Solid Surface Stress
Qin Xu, Katharine E. Jensen, Rostislav Boltyanskiy +3
Surface stress, also known as surface tension, is a fundamental material property of any interface. However, measurements of solid surface stress in traditional engineering materia…
An iterative algorithm to improve colloidal particle locating
Katharine E. Jensen, Nobutomo Nakamura
Confocal microscopy of colloids combined with digital image processing has become a powerful tool in soft matter physics and materials science. Together, these techniques enable lo…
Wetting and phase separation in soft adhesion
K. E. Jensen, R. Sarfati, R. W. Style +4
In the classic theory of solid adhesion, surface energy drives deformation to increase contact area while bulk elasticity opposes it. Recently, solid surface stress has been shown…
Stiffening solids with liquid inclusions
Robert W. Style, Rostislav Boltyanskiy, Benjamin Allen +4
From bone and wood to concrete and carbon fibre, composites are ubiquitous natural and engineering materials. Eshelby's inclusion theory describes how macroscopic stress fields cou…