It is widely appreciated that surface tension can dominate the behavior of liquids at small
scales. Solids also have surface stresses of a similar magnitude, but they are usually …

The laws of wetting are well known for drops on rigid surfaces but change dramatically when
the substrate is soft and deformable. The combination of wetting and the intricacies of soft …

Hydrogels with strong yet reversible mechanical and adhesive properties fabricated in a
facile and friendly manner are important for engineering and intelligent electronics …

A general introduction to surface and interfacial forces, perfectly combining theoretical
concepts, experimental techniques and practical applications. In this completely updated …

Drops in contact with swollen, elastomeric substrates can induce a capillary mediated phase
separation in wetting ridges. Using confocal microscopy, we visualize phase separation of …

Surface stress, also known as surface tension, is a fundamental material property of any
interface. However, measurements of solid surface stress in traditional engineering …

When a water drop is placed onto a soft polymer network, a wetting ridge develops at the
drop periphery. The height of this wetting ridge is typically governed by the drop surface …

Commercial silicone elastomers are commonly used in soft materials research due to their
easily tunable mechanical properties. However, conventional polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) …

Polymeric elastomers made of bottlebrush chains are soft, solvent-free materials with
precisely controllable moduli by network topology. However, fabrication methods of …

Two‐part, commercial silicone elastomers are used in a variety of fundamental soft materials
research and industrial applications due to their wide availability, ease of use, low cost, and …