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Polycrystallinity enhances stress build-up around ice
Dominic Gerber, Lawrence A. Wilen, Eric R. Dufresne +1
Damage caused by freezing wet, porous materials is a widespread problem, but is hard to predict or control. Here, we show that polycrystallinity makes a great difference to the str…
Stress accumulation around ice in a temperature gradient
Dominic Gerber, Lawrence A. Wilen, Florian Poydenot +2
When materials freeze, they often undergo damage due to ice growth. Although this damage is commonly ascribed to the volumetric expansion of water upon freezing, it is usually driv…
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…
Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in an Elastic Network
Robert W. Style, Tianqi Sai, Nicoló Fanelli +5
Living and engineered systems rely on the stable coexistence of two interspersed liquid phases. Yet surface tension drives their complete separation. Here we show that stable dropl…
Patterning droplets with durotaxis
Robert W. Style, Yonglu Che, Su Ji Park +8
Numerous cell-types have shown a remarkable ability to detect and move along gradients in stiffness of an underlying substrate -- a process known as durotaxis. The mechanisms under…
Universal deformation of soft substrates near a contact line and the direct measurement of solid surface stresses
Robert W. Style, Yonglu Che, John. S. Wettlaufer +2
Droplets deform soft substrates near their contact lines. Using confocal microscopy, we measure the deformation of silicone gel substrates due to glycerol and fluorinated-oil dropl…
The Deformation of an Elastic Substrate by a Three-Phase Contact Line
Elizabeth R. Jerison, Ye Xu, Larry A. Wilen +1
Young's classic analysis of the equilibrium of a three-phase contact line ignores the out-of-plane component of the liquid-vapor surface tension. While it has long been appreciated…