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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Multiscale Soft Surface Instabilities for Adhesion Enhancement.

Vaisakh Vilavinalthundil Mohanan, Ho Yi Lydia Mak, Nishan Gurung, Qin Xu

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Vaisakh Vilavinalthundil MohananDepartment of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong SAR, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5639-960X
Ho Yi Lydia MakDepartment of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Nishan GurungDepartment of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Qin XuDepartment of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong SAR, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6214-1149

Funding

Hong Kong Research Grants Council 16305821Hong Kong Research Grants Council 26309620
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Soft polymeric gels are susceptible to buckling-induced instabilities due to their great compliance to surface deformations. The instability patterns at soft interfaces have great potential in engineering functional materials with unique surface properties. In this work, we systematically investigated how swelling-induced instability patterns effectively improved the adhesive properties of soft polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) gels. We directly imaged the formations of the surface instability features during the relaxation process of a swollen gel substrate. The features were found to greatly increase the adhesion energy of soft gels across multiple length scales, and the adhesion enhancement was associated with the variations of contact lines both inside the contact region and along the contact periphery. We expect that these studies of instability patterns due to swelling will further benefit the design of functional interfaces in various engineering applications.

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adhesioninstabilitiessoft gelsswelling

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PMID35160799
PMCPMC8836914

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