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    Dissipation and moving contact lines on non-rigid substrates

    Year: 2003

    Journal: Journal of the European Ceramic Society 23 (2003) 2769-2775, 20111221

    Authors: M. Vou , R. Rioboo , C. Bauthier , J. Conti , M. Charlot , J. De Coninck

    Organizations: a Centre de Recherche en Modelisation Moleculaire, Materia Nova ASBL, Avenue Copernic, 1, B-7000 Mons, Belgium b Centre de Recherche en Modelisation Moleculaire, Universite de Mons-Hainaut, Place du Parc, 20, B-7000 Mons, Belgium

    We consider the dynamics of spreading of silicon oil droplets on elastomer thin films, and the associated relaxation of the advancing contact angle. Although the viscoelastic breaking of the droplet is observed on bulk elastomers, according to the studies of Shanahan and coworkers [C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 317 (1993) 1153], we show that the breaking progressively disappears as the elastomer film thins.