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Solid Capillarity: When and How does Surface Tension Deform Soft Solids?

Soft Condensed Matter 2017-01-31 v1 Materials Science Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

Soft solids differ from stiff solids in an important way: their surface stresses can drive large deformations. Based on a topical workshop held in the Lorentz Center in Leiden, this Opinion highlights some recent advances in the growing field of solid capillarity and poses key questions for its advancement.

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@article{arxiv.1512.08705,
  title  = {Solid Capillarity: When and How does Surface Tension Deform Soft Solids?},
  author = {Bruno Andreotti and Oliver Baeumchen and Francois Boulogne and Karen E. Daniels and Eric R. Dufresne and Hugo Perrin and Thomas Salez and Jacco H. Snoeijer and Robert W. Style},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.08705},
  year   = {2017}
}

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5 pages, 1 figure

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