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Figure 4

From: Measurements of periodically perturbed dewetting force fields and their consequences on the symmetry of the resulting patterns

Figure 4

The dewetting velocity approached zero when elastic forces (visualized by the deformations of the pillars) acting at the contact line balanced capillary forces. (a) Mean tension, \(\mathop \sum \limits_{i} \left| {\vec{F}_{i} } \right|/P\), as a function of \(t_{{{\text{dew}}~}}\). (b) \(V_{{{\text{dew}}}}\) as a function of the sum of opposing capillary and elastic forces, \(\gamma _{{{\text{PS}}}} ~{-}~\mathop \sum \limits_{i} \left| {\vec{F}_{i} } \right|/P~\).

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