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Viscoelastic materials are most energy efficient when loaded and unloaded at equal rates
Lucien Tsai, Paco Navarro, Siqi Wu +6
Biological springs can be used in nature for energy conservation and ultra-fast motion. The loading and unloading rates of elastic materials can play an important role in determini…
Size-scaling limits of impulsive elastic energy release from a resilin-like elastomer
Mark Ilton, S. M. Cox, Thijs Egelmeers +3
Elastically-driven motion has been used as a strategy to achieve high speeds in small organisms and engineered micro-robotic devices. We examine the size-scaling relations determin…
Adsorption-Induced Slip Inhibition for Polymer Melts on Ideal Substrates
Mark Ilton, Thomas Salez, Paul D. Fowler +7
Hydrodynamic slip of a liquid at a solid surface represents a fundamental phenomenon in fluid dynamics that governs liquid transport at small scales. For polymeric liquids, de Genn…
Direct measurement of the critical pore size in a model membrane
Mark Ilton, Christian DiMaria, Kari Dalnoki-Veress
We study pore nucleation in a model membrane system, a freestanding polymer film. Nucleated pores smaller than a critical size close, while pores larger than the critical size grow…
Capillary levelling of free-standing liquid nanofilms
Mark Ilton, Miles M. P. Couchman, Cedric Gerbelot +6
We report on the capillary-driven levelling of a topographical perturbation at the surface of a free-standing liquid nanofilm. The width of a stepped surface profile is found to ev…
Symmetry Plays a Key Role in the Erasing of Patterned Surface Features
Michael Benzaquen, Mark Ilton, Michael V. Massa +4
We report on how the relaxation of patterns prepared on a thin film can be controlled by manipu- lating the symmetry of the initial shape. The validity of a lubrication theory for…
Inhomogeneous Magnetic-Field Response of YBa2Cu3Oy and La2-xSrxCuO4 Persisting above the Bulk Superconducting Transition Temperature
J. E. Sonier, M. Ilton, V. Pacradouni +8
We report that in YBa2Cu3Oy and La2-xSrxCuO4 there is a spatially inhomogeneous response to magnetic field for temperatures T extending well above the bulk superconducting transiti…