ArticleScience advances2024
Why soft contacts are stickier when breaking than when making them.
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- Active control of bioinspired dry adhesionRSC advances · 2026Article
- Optimizing Solid Lubricity in Complex Particle Flow.ACS materials Au · 2026Article
- Control of Friction Laws in Tangential Adhesive Contacts by Surface Geometry.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Adhesion of Filled Rubber at the Nanoscale.ACS omega · 2025Article
- Frictional strength regulated by roughness alignment.Science advances · 2025Article
- Self-Lubricating Tribo-Catalytic Activity of 2D High Entropy Alloy Nanoflakes.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025Article
- Small-scale roughness entraps water and controls underwater adhesion.Science advances · 2024Article
- dtool and dserver: A flexible ecosystem for findable data.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
Soft solids are sticky. They attract each other and spontaneously form a large area of contact. Their force of attraction is higher when separating than when forming contact, a phenomenon known as adhesion hysteresis. The common explanation for this hysteresis is viscoelastic energy dissipation or contact aging. Here, we use experiments and simulations to show that it emerges even for perfectly elastic solids. Pinning by surface roughness triggers the stick-slip motion of the contact line, dissipating energy. We derive a simple and general parameter-free equation that quantitatively describes contact formation in the presence of roughness. Our results highlight the crucial role of surface roughness and present a fundamental shift in our understanding of soft adhesion.
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