Water under the Ridge: Evaporation, Translation, Crumpling and Encapsulation of a Water Droplet atop a Liquid Polymeric Film

Sri Ganesh Subramanian, Sachin Nair, Sunando DasGupta

The intriguing dynamics of a compound liquid-system comprising of water and (uncured) poly-dimethylsiloxane is explored in the present work. The viscoelastic nature of the film, co…