Issue 12, 2016

Solid capillarity: when and how does surface tension deform soft solids?

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.

Graphical abstract: Solid capillarity: when and how does surface tension deform soft solids?

Article information

Article type
Opinion
Submitted
29 Tsh 2015
Accepted
24 Kol 2016
First published
24 Kol 2016

Soft Matter, 2016,12, 2993-2996

Solid capillarity: when and how does surface tension deform soft solids?

B. Andreotti, O. Bäumchen, F. Boulogne, K. E. Daniels, E. R. Dufresne, H. Perrin, T. Salez, J. H. Snoeijer and R. W. Style, Soft Matter, 2016, 12, 2993 DOI: 10.1039/C5SM03140K

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