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 …

Slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces (SLIPS) show remarkable liquid repellency, making
them useful for many coating applications. The outstanding repellency of SLIPS comes from …

The underlying mechanisms of surface phenomena are very complex and still not entirely
clear. The aim of this work attempts to reveal the important contribution of the nonlocal …

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

The magnitude of mechanical stresses caused by cell surface tension may be comparable to
the bulk elasticity of their matrix on cellular length scales, yet how capillary effects influence …

We discuss the propagation of transverse surface waves that are so-called whispering-
gallery waves along a surface of an elastic cylinder with coating. The coating is modelled in …

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 liquid drops on soft substrates is extremely slow, owing to strong
viscoelastic dissipation inside the solid. A detailed understanding of the spreading dynamics …

We present a comparison of the dispersion relations derived for anti-plane surface waves
using the two distinct approaches of the surface elasticity vis-a-vis the lattice dynamics. We …

The wetting of soft elastic substrates exhibits many features that have no counterpart on rigid
surfaces. Modelling the detailed elastocapillary interactions is challenging, and has so far …