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Contact lines on stretched soft solids: Modeling anisotropic surface stresses
Stefanie Heyden, Nicolas Bain, Qin Xu +2
We present fully analytical solutions for the deformation of a stretched soft substrate due to the static wetting of a large liquid droplet, and compare our solutions to recently p…
Surface tensiometry of phase separated protein and polymer droplets by the sessile drop method
Mahdiye Ijavi, Robert W. Style, Leonidas Emmanouilidis +7
Phase separated macromolecules play essential roles in many biological and synthetic systems. Physical characterization of these systems can be challenging because of limited sampl…
Droplets sit and slide anisotropically on soft, stretched substrates
Katrina Smith-Mannschott, Qin Xu, Stefanie Heyden +3
Anisotropically wetting substrates enable useful control of droplet behavior across a range of applications. Usually, these involve chemically or physically patterning the substrat…
Wrapping of Microparticles by Floppy Lipid Vesicles
Hendrik T. Spanke, Robert W. Style, Claire François-Martin +5
Lipid membranes, the barrier defining living cells and many of their sub-compartments, bind to a wide variety of nano- and micro-meter sized objects. In the presence of strong adhe…
Viscoelastic and poroelastic relaxations of soft solid surfaces
Qin Xu, Lawrence A. Wilen, Katharine E. Jensen +2
Understanding surface mechanics of soft solids, such as soft polymeric gels, is crucial in many engineering processes, such as dynamic wetting and adhesive failure. In these situat…
Switchable Adhesion of Soft Composites Induced by a Magnetic Field
Paolo Testa, Benoît Chappuis, Sabrina Kistler +3
Switchable adhesives have the potential to improve the manufacturing and recycling of parts and to enable new modes of motility for soft robots. Here, we demonstrate magnetically-s…