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cond-mat.soft2025

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…

cond-mat.soft2025

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…

cond-mat.soft2020

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…

cond-mat.soft2018

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…

cond-mat.soft201729 cited

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…