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SOFT MATTER
Volume 9, Issue 27, Pages 6226-6234Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3sm50251a
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- L'Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-09-JCJC-0022-01]
- Emergence(s) program of the Ville de Paris
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-09-JCJC-0022] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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A liquid surface touching a solid usually deforms in a near-wall meniscus region. In this work, we replace part of the free surface with a soft polymer and examine the shape of this 'elasto-capillary meniscus', a result of the interplay between elasticity, capillarity and hydrostatic pressure. We focus particularly on the extraction threshold for the soft object. Indeed, we demonstrate both experimentally and theoretically the existence of a limit height of liquid tenable before breakdown of the compound and extraction of the object. Such an extraction force is known since Laplace and Gay-Lussac, but only in the context of rigid floating objects. We revisit this classical problem by adding the elastic ingredient and predict the extraction force in terms of the strip elastic properties. It is finally shown that the critical force can be increased with elasticity, as is commonplace in adhesion phenomena.
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