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20182020
most citedSpreading on viscoelastic solids: Are contact angles selected by Neumann's law?

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10 papers

cond-mat.soft2020

Evaporative self-assembly of motile droplets

Anton Molina, Shailabh Kumar, Stefan Karpitschka +1

Self-assembly is the underlying building principle of biological systems and represents a promising approach for the future of manufacturing, but the yields are often limited by un…

physics.flu-dyn2020

Regimes of Soft Lubrication

Martin Essink, Anupam Pandey, Stefan Karpitschka +2

Elastohydrodynamic lubrication, or simply soft lubrication, refers to the motion of deformable objects near a boundary lubricated by a fluid, and is one of the key physical mechani…

physics.flu-dyn2020

Wetting of two-component drops: Marangoni contraction versus autophobing

Michiel A. Hack, Wojciech Kwieciński, Olinka Ramírez-Soto +4

The wetting properties of multi-component liquids are crucial to numerous industrial applications. The mechanisms that determine the contact angles for such liquids remain poorly u…

cond-mat.soft2020

On the singular nature of the elastocapillary ridge

A. Pandey, B. Andreotti, S. Karpitschka +3

The functionality of soft interfaces is crucial to many applications in biology and surface science. Recent studies have used liquid drops to probe the surface mechanics of elastom…

cond-mat.soft2019

Peeling an elastic film from a soft viscoelastic adhesive: experiments and scaling laws

Hugo Perrin, Antonin Eddi, Stefan Karpitschka +2

The functionality of adhesives relies on their response under the application of a load. Yet, it has remained a challenge to quantitatively relate the macroscopic dynamics of peeli…

physics.bio-ph2019

Dynamic Force Measurements on Swimming Chlamydomonas Cells using Micropipette Force Sensors

Thomas J. Böddeker, Stefan Karpitschka, Christian T. Kreis +2

Flagella and cilia are cellular appendages that inherit essential functions of microbial life including sensing and navigating the environment. In order to propel a swimming microo…