Journal
SOFT MATTER
Volume 6, Issue 22, Pages 5778-5782Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c0sm00432d
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- Oppenheimer Early Career Fellowship
- CNRS-Conicyt
- Fondecyt [1095112]
- Anillo Act 95
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We present a physically-based model for the deformation of a floating elastic membrane caused by the presence of a liquid drop. Starting from the equations of membrane theory modified to account for surface energies, we show that the presence of a liquid drop causes an azimuthal compression over a finite region. This explains the origin of the wrinkling of such membranes observed recently (Huang et al., Science, 2007, 317, 650) and suggests a single parameter that determines the extent of the wrinkled region. While experimental data supports the importance of this single parameter, our theory under-predicts the extent of the wrinkled region observed experimentally. We suggest that this discrepancy is likely to be due to the wrinkling observed here being far from the threshold.
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