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Adhesion-induced fingering instability in thin elastic films under strain

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In this study, thin elastic films supported on a rigid substrate are brought into contact with a spherical glass indenter. Upon contact, adhesive fingers emerge at the periphery of the contact patch with a characteristic wavelength. Elastic films are also pre-strained along one axis before the initiation of contact, causing the fingering pattern to become anisotropic and align with the axis along which the strain was applied. This transition from isotropic to anisotropic patterning is characterized quantitatively and a simple model is developed to understand the origin of the anisotropy.

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  1. Department of Physics & Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, L8S 4M1, Ontario, Canada

    Benjamin Davis-Purcell & Kari Dalnoki-Veress

  2. Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Théorique, UMR CNRS Gulliver 7083, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75005, Paris, France

    Pierre Soulard, Elie Raphaël & Kari Dalnoki-Veress

  3. Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, LOMA, UMR 5798, F-33405, Talence, France

    Thomas Salez

  4. Global Station for Soft Matter, Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

    Thomas Salez

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Davis-Purcell, B., Soulard, P., Salez, T. et al. Adhesion-induced fingering instability in thin elastic films under strain. Eur. Phys. J. E 41, 36 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2018-11643-6

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