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Direct Measurement of Strain-dependent Solid Surface Stress
Qin Xu, Katharine E. Jensen, Rostislav Boltyanskiy +3
Surface stress, also known as surface tension, is a fundamental material property of any interface. However, measurements of solid surface stress in traditional engineering materia…
Tracking Particles with Large Displacements using Energy Minimization
Rostislav Boltyanskiy, Jason W. Merrill, Eric R. Dufresne
We describe a method to track particles undergoing large displacements. Starting with a list of particle positions sampled at different time points, we assign particle identities b…
Wetting and phase separation in soft adhesion
K. E. Jensen, R. Sarfati, R. W. Style +4
In the classic theory of solid adhesion, surface energy drives deformation to increase contact area while bulk elasticity opposes it. Recently, solid surface stress has been shown…
Stiffening solids with liquid inclusions
Robert W. Style, Rostislav Boltyanskiy, Benjamin Allen +4
From bone and wood to concrete and carbon fibre, composites are ubiquitous natural and engineering materials. Eshelby's inclusion theory describes how macroscopic stress fields cou…
Surface tension and contact with soft elastic solids
Robert W. Style, Callen Hyland, Rostislav Boltyanskiy +2
Johnson-Kendall-Robert (JKR) theory is the basis of modern contact mechanics. It describes how two deformable objects adhere together, driven by adhesion energy and opposed by elas…
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…