The peeling apart of layered materials is common in nature and has been used by humans
in myriad applications since prehistoric times. Over the past century, a wide range of peel …

Soft materials are materials with a low shear modulus relative to their bulk modulus and
where elastic restoring forces are mainly of entropic origin. A sparse population of strong …

The laws of wetting are well known for drops on rigid surfaces but change dramatically when
the substrate is soft and deformable. The combination of wetting and the intricacies of soft …

A skin adhesive patch is the most fundamental and widely used medical device for diverse
health‐care purposes. Conventional skin adhesive patches have been mainly utilized for …

Underwater adhesion has been the focus of many recent developments motivated by
potential biomedical applications. Although most literature on underwater adhesives has …

Few advanced mechanics of materials solutions have found broader and more enduring
applications than Emil Winkler's beam on elastic foundation analysis, first published in 1867 …

The fabrication of pressure sensitive adhesives (PSAs) using liquid crystal elastomers
(LCEs), which are known for their excellent dissipation properties, is explored in this work …

The cohesive zone model (CZM) has been extensively utilized to investigate the cohesive
failure of the soft adhesive layer. This paper has proposed a modified CZM considering the …

Viscoelasticity and rate-dependent adhesion of soft matter lead to difficulties in modelling
the'relatively simple'problem of a rigid sphere in contact with a viscoelastic half-space. For …

Soft materials that are subjected to large deformations exhibit an extremely rich
phenomenology, with properties lying in between those of simple fluids and those of elastic …