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Converting water adsorption and capillary condensation in useable forces with simple porous inorganic thin films
Mickael Boudot, Hervé Elettro, David Grosso
This work reports an innovative humidity driven actuation concept based on Bangham effect using simple nanoporous sol-gel silica thin films as humidity responsive materials. Bilaye…
Coiling of an elastic beam inside a disk: A model for spider-capture silk
Hervé Elettro, Fritz Vollrath, Sébastien Neukirch +1
Motivated by recent experimental observations of capillary-induced spooling of fibers inside droplets both in spider capture silk and in synthetic systems, we investigate the behav…
Elastocapillary coiling of an elastic rod inside a drop
Hervé Elettro, Paul Grandgeorge, Sébastien Neukirch
Capillary forces acting at the surface of a liquid drop can be strong enough to deform small objects and recent studies have provided several examples of elastic instabilities indu…
Drop-on-coilable-fibre systems exhibit negative stiffness events and transitions in coiling morphology
Hervé Elettro, Sébastien Neukirch, Fritz Vollrath +1
We investigate the mechanics of elastic fibres carrying liquid droplets. In such systems, buckling may localize inside the drop cavity if the fibre is thin enough. This so-called d…