4 papers
Surface mobility of a glass-forming polymer in an ionic liquid
Xinyu Zhang, Christian Pedersen, Haoqi Zhu +6
The free surface of glassy polymers exhibits enhanced segmental dynamics compared to the bulk, forming a liquid-like layer that lowers the glass transition temperature (Tg) in nano…
Singular viscoelastic perturbation to soft lubrication
Bharti Bharti, Quentin Ferreira, Aditya Jha +5
Soft lubrication has been shown to drastically affect the mobility of an object immersed in a viscous fluid in the vicinity of a purely elastic wall. In this theoretical study, we…
Plateau-Rayleigh instability of a soft layer coated on a rigid cylinder
Bharti, Andreas Carlson, Tak Shing Chan
We study the Plateau-Rayleigh instability of a viscoelastic soft solid layer coated on a rigid cylinder i.e., a soft fibre with a rigid core. The onset of instability is examined u…
Plateau-Rayleigh instability of a viscous film on a soft fiber
Bharti Bharti, Andreas Carlson, Tak Shing Chan +1
We theoretically study the Plateau-Rayleigh instability of a thin viscous film covering a fiber consisting of a rigid cylindrical core coated with a thin compressible elastic layer…