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Structural topography-mediated high temperature wetting symmetry breaking
Jing Li, Youmin Hou, Yahua Liu +4
Directed motion of liquid droplets is of considerable importance in various industrial processes. Despite extensive advances in this field of research, our understanding and the ab…
Elasto-buoyant heavy spheres: a unique way to test non-linear elasticity
Aditi Chakrabarti, Manoj K. Chaudhury, Serge Mora +1
Extra-large deformations in ultra-soft elastic materials are ubiquitous, yet systematic studies and methods to understand the mechanics of such huge strains are lacking. Here we in…
Friction at Soft Polymer Surfaces: Lubrication Effect of Oil Impregnation
Manoj K. Chaudhury, Katherine Vorvolakos, David Malotky
The modes of attachments, detachments and relaxations of molecules of rubbers and gels on solid surfaces are keys to understanding their frictional properties. An early stochastic…
Generation of Motion of Drops with Interfacial Contact
Manoj K. Chaudhury, Aditi Chakrabarti, Susan Daniel
A liquid drop moves on a solid surface if it is subjected to a gradient of wettability or temperature. However, the pinning defects on the surface manifested in terms of a wetting…
Adhesion Induced Instabilities and Pattern Formation in Thin Films of Elastomers and Gels
Manoj K. Chaudhury, Aditi Chakrabarti, Animangsu Ghatak
A hydrostatically stressed soft elastic film circumvents the imposed constraint by undergoing a morphological instability, the wavelength of which is dictated by the minimization o…
Elastic Cheerios effect: self-assembly of cylinders on a soft solid
Aditi Chakrabarti, Louis Ryan, Manoj K. Chaudhury +1
A rigid cylinder placed on a soft gel deforms its surface. When multiple cylinders are placed on the surface, they interact with each other via the topography of the deformed gel w…