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ArticleThe European physical journal. E, Soft matter2026

Spreading and absorption of silicone oil droplets on silicone elastomer films.

Lauren Dutcher, Benjamin Baylis, John R Dutcher, Élie Raphaël, Kari Dalnoki-Veress

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5 authors.

Lauren DutcherDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Benjamin BaylisDepartment of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada.
John R DutcherDepartment of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2594-5388
Élie RaphaëlUMR CNRS Gulliver 7083, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, Paris, 75005, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0007-4790
Kari Dalnoki-VeressDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. dalnoki@mcmaster.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0885-6634

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

When a liquid droplet completely wets a hard substrate, its spreading dynamics follow Tanner's law, with the droplet radius growing as the one-tenth power of time. Here, we investigate how these dynamics change when silicone oil droplets spread on soft silicone elastomer and gel films supported by a rigid silicon substrate. While the droplets fully wet the elastomer surface, they also simultaneously swell the elastomer film. By varying the film thickness, we observe deviations from the classical power-law scaling, which we interpret in terms of changes to the effective stiffness and the absorption potential of the system. We describe the spreading behavior using a phenomenological model that accounts for both absorption and mechanical contributions..

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