Gelatin, glue, silicon joints, brain, whether we know it or not, soft solids are all around us: they constitute a large part of our body tissues, and are used in many food and industrial products. Contrary to stiff solids, a small force suffices to deform them, and their surface tension plays a big role in their mechanical response.
Multiscale interfacial mechanics of soft solids
N. Bain, L.A. Willen, D. Gerber, M. Zu, C. Goodrich, S. Duraivel, K. Varma, H. Koganti, R.W. Style, and E.R. Dufresne
Physical Review X (2026)
DOI: doi.org/10.1103/8msx-l8s7
From a distance: Shuttleworth revisited.
S. Heyden and N.Bain
Soft Matter (2024)
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00078A
Reply to the ‘Comment on “Surface elastic constants of a soft solid”’ by E. Gutman, Soft Matter, 2022, 18, DOI: 10.1039/D1SM01412A.
N. Bain, S. Heyden, Q. Xu, R.W. Style and E.R. Dufresne
Soft Matter (2022)
DOI: 10.1039/D2SM00249C
Surface tension and the strain-dependent topography of soft solids.
N. Bain , A. Jagota, K. Smith-Mannschott, S. Heyden, R.W. Style and E.R. Dufresne
Physical Review Letters (2021)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.93.022305
Measuring surface tensions of soft solids with huge contact-angle hysteresis.
J.Y. Kim, S. Heyden, D. Gerber, N. Bain, E.R. Dufresne and R.W. Style
Physical Review X (2021)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.11.031004 Droplets sit and slide anisotropically on soft, stretched substrates.
K. Smith-Mannschott, Q. Xu, S. Heyden, N. Bain, J.H. Snoeijer, E.R. Dufresne and R.W. Style
Physical Review Letters (2021)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.158004 Contact lines on stretched soft solids: modeling anisotropic surface stresses.
S. Heyden, N. Bain, Q. Xu, R.W. Style and E.R. Dufresne
Proceedings of the Royal Society (2021)
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2020.0673
How surface stress transforms surface profiles and adhesion of rough elastic bodies.
C.Y. Hui, Z. Liu, N. Bain, A. Jagota, E.R. Dufresne, R.W. Style, R. Kiyama and J.P. Gong
Proceedings of the Royal Society (2020)
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2020.0477