Role of the external pressure on the dewetting of soft interfaces.
We consider dewetting at soft interfaces, e.g., a rubber ball squeezed in a fluid against a flat hard substrate. We show that the applied squeezing pressure, which was not taken into account in earlier studies of the dewetting transition, may have a big effect on the squeeze-out dynamics.
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IFF, FZ-Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany. B.Persson@fz-juelich.de
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