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Adhesion of microcapsules

Peter Graf, Reimar Finken, Udo Seifert

cond-mat.softarXiv:cond-mat/0606357

Abstract

The adhesion of microcapsules to an attractive contact potential is studied theoretically. The axisymmetric shape equations are solved numerically. Beyond a universal threshold strength of the potential, the contact radius increases like a square root of the strength. Scaling functions for the corresponding amplitudes are derived as a function of the elastic parameters.

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