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Spreading and absorption of silicone oil droplets on silicone elastomer films
Lauren Dutcher, Benjamin Baylis, John R. Dutcher +2
When a liquid droplet completely wets a hard substrate, its spreading dynamics follow Tanner's law, with the droplet radius growing as the one-tenth power of time. Here, we investi…
Nanoparticle Taylor dispersion near charged surfaces with an open boundary
Alexandre Vilquin, Vincent Bertin, Elie Raphaël +3
The dispersive spreading of microscopic particles in shear flows is influenced both by advection and thermal motion. At the nanoscale, interactions between such particles and their…
Enhanced Dip Coating on a Soft Substrate
Vincent Bertin, Jacco Snoeijer, Elie Raphaël +1
A solid, withdrawn from a liquid bath, entrains a thin liquid film. This simple process, first described by Landau, Levich and Derjaguin (LLD), is commonly observed in everyday lif…
Effect of the density of pillar-patterned substrates on the contact mechanics: Transition from top to mixed contact with a detailed pressure-field description
Rene Ledesma-Alonso, Elie Raphael, Frederic Restagno +1
Different contact regimes between a spherical lens and a periodically patterned substrate are observed, when they are pressed against each other. Top contact occurs when only the h…
Soft-lubrication interactions between a rigid sphere and an elastic wall
Vincent Bertin, Yacine Amarouchene, Elie Raphael +1
The motion of an object within a viscous fluid and in the vicinity of a soft surface induces a hydrodynamic stress field that deforms the latter, thus modifying the boundary condit…
Contactless rheology of finite-size air-water interfaces
Vincent Bertin, Zaicheng Zhang, Rodolphe Boisgard +4
We present contactless atomic-force microscopy measurements of the hydrodynamic interactions between a rigid sphere and an air bubble in water at the micro-scale. The size of the b…