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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 122, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.068003
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- Royal Thai Government Scholarship
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/J014427/1]
- Lithuanian Science Council Postdoctoral Award [09.3.3-LMT-K-712-02-0067]
- Wellcome Senior Investigator Award [103788/Z/14/Z]
- Wellcome Technology award [108438/Z/15/Z]
- BBSRC [BB/J00989X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Wellcome Trust [103788/Z/14/Z, 108438/Z/15/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
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A long cylindrical cavity through a soft solid forms a soft microfluidic channel, or models a vascular capillary. We observe experimentally that, when such a channel bears a pressurized fluid, it first dilates homogeneously, but then becomes unstable to a peristaltic elastic instability. We combine theory and numerics to fully characterize the instability in a channel with initial radius a through an incompressible bulk neo-Hookean solid with shear modulus mu. We show instability occurs supercritically with wavelength 12.278 ... a when the cavity pressure exceeds 2.052 ... mu. In finite solids, the wavelength for peristalsis lengthens, with peristalsis ultimately being replaced by a long-wavelength bulging instability in thin-walled cylinders. Peristalsis persists in Gent strain-stiffening materials, provided the material can sustain extension by more than a factor of 6. Although naively a pressure driven failure mode of soft channels, the instability also offers a route to fabricate periodically undulating channels, producing, e.g., waveguides with photonic or phononic stop bands.
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