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Wetting and Adhesion at Soft Interfaces

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School of Physics Soft Condensed Matter & Biophysics Series: Dr. Eric Dufresne, Yale University

Liquids and solids tend to stick to each other.  When a liquid droplet sticks to a solid surface we call it wetting.  When a solid particle sticks to a solid surface we call it adhesion.  The classic coarse-grained descriptions of these two phenomena are distinct from each other.  Both descriptions assume that solid objects undergo very little deformation during wetting and adhesion.  In this talk, I will show how this assumption breaks down when the solids are soft enough and how wetting and adhesion really are not that different after all.

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  • Workflow Status:Published
  • Created By:Alison Morain
  • Created:03/04/2014
  • Modified By:Fletcher Moore
  • Modified:10/07/2016

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