Boxue Zheng

Jul 20, 2023 | pubs.rsc.org | Christian Pedersen |Andreas Carlson |Tak Shing Chan |Boxue Zheng

Static wetting of a barrel-shaped droplet on a soft-layer-coated fiber A droplet can deform a soft substrate due to capillary forces when they are in contact. We study the static deformation of a soft solid layer coated on a rigid cylindrical fiber when an axisymmetric barrel-shaped droplet is embracing it. We find that the elastic deformation increases with decreasing rigid fiber radius.