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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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- Created by: Alison Morain
- Created: 03/04/2014
- Modified By: Fletcher Moore
- Modified: 10/07/2016
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