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Article Dans Une Revue Langmuir Année : 2018

Elastowetting of Soft Hydrogel Spheres

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When a soft hydrogel sphere is placed on a rigid hydrophilic substrate, it undergoes arrested spreading by forming an axisymmetric foot near the contact line, while conserving its global spherical shape. In contrast, liquid water (that constitutes greater than 90% of the hydrogel's volume) spreads into a thin film on the same surface. We study systematically this elastowetting of gel spheres on substrates of different surface energies and find that their contact angle increases as the work of adhesion between the gel and the substrate decreases, as one would observe for drops of pure water--albeit being larger than in the latter case. This difference in the contact angles of gel and water appears to be due to the elastic shear stresses that develop in the gel and oppose its spreading. Indeed, by increasing the elastic modulus of the gel spheres, we find that their contact angle also increases. In addition, the length of the contact foot increases with the work of adhesion and sphere size, while it decreases when the elastic modulus of the gel is increased. We discuss those experimental results in light of a minimal analysis based on energy minimization, volume conservation, and scaling arguments.
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hal-01802822 , version 1 (29-05-2018)

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Aditi Chakrabarti, Amir Porat, Elie Raphaël, Thomas Salez, Manoj K Chaudhury. Elastowetting of Soft Hydrogel Spheres. Langmuir, 2018, 34 (13), pp.3894-3900. ⟨10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b00368⟩. ⟨hal-01802822⟩
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