Unsteady wetting of soft solids

• Main Authors: Vo, Quoc, Mitra, Surjyasish, Lin, Marcus, Tran, Tuan
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Engineering; Wetting; Stick-slip
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/175810
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Hypothesis: Spreading of liquids on soft solids often occurs intermittently, i.e., the liquid’s wetting front switches between sticking and slipping. Studies of this so-called stick-slip wetting on soft solids mostly are confined within quasi-static or forced spreading conditions. In these situation...