Bulletin of the American Physical Society
73rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
Volume 65, Number 13
Sunday–Tuesday, November 22–24, 2020; Virtual, CT (Chicago time)
Session V02: Award Talk: The Francois N. Frenkiel AwardLive Prize/Award
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Chair: Diego Donzis, Texas A&M University |
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 9:35AM - 9:55AM Live |
V02.00001: Elasto-capillary adhesion: How does deformation affect adhesion strength and detachment? Invited Speaker: Matthew Butler A wetting droplet confined between two solids exerts a force that pulls the two solids together by the action of surface tension. If one or both solids can deform elastically, a positive feedback between surface tension and deformation has the potential to enhance the adhesion significantly. We explore the effect of deformation on capillary adhesion using a combination of theory and experiment; we consider a model system consisting of a clamped, tense membrane adhered to a rigid substrate by the surface tension of a liquid droplet. By understanding its equilibrium states, we find significant enhancement in the adhesive force compared to an equivalent capillary adhesion between rigid plates. The choice of membrane tension, which sets the level of membrane deformability, gives additional control over the system and allows for new adhesion and detachment strategies to be explored. Experiments, however, suggest that strong adhesion may not always be achieved; we investigate the role of dynamic effects in controlling the adhesion achieved and discuss the dynamics of detachment.\\ \\In collaboration with: Finn Box, University of Oxford, University of Manchester; Thomas Robert, University of Oxford, ENS Paris; Dominic Vella, University of Oxford [Preview Abstract] |
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