The nanoconfinement effects of glassy polymer thin films on their thermal and mechanical
properties have been investigated thoroughly, especially with an emphasis on its altered …

Silicone is frequently used as a model system to investigate and tune wetting on soft
materials. Silicone is biocompatible and shows excellent thermal, chemical, and UV stability …

Surface stress and surface energy are fundamental quantities which characterize the
interface between two materials. Although these quantities are identical for interfaces …

The spreading of droplets on soft solid substrates is relevant to applications such as tumor
biophysics and controlled droplet condensation and evaporation. In this paper, we apply …

We study the friction force during lubricated sliding of a rigid cylindrical indenter against a
viscoelastic substrate in the iso-viscous visco-elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication (VEHL) …

In this article, we present an overview of research on flow in microconfinements with
deformable boundaries. The time frame of focus is the last decade (2007–2017). The article …

Many important problems in elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication arise when one of the
contacting bodies is elastically soft. An example is the squeezing of a thin liquid film …

When an elastic object is dragged through a viscous fluid tangent to a rigid boundary, it
experiences a lift force perpendicular to its direction of motion. An analogous lift occurs …

We study the lubricated sliding of a rigid cylinder on a viscoelastic half space with a single
characteristic retardation time. Besides the generalized inverse Hersey number β β, which is …

An elastic sheet that deforms near a solid substrate in a viscous fluid is a situation relevant to
various dynamical processes in biology, geophysics, and engineering. Here, we study the …