Drops on soft solids: free energy and double transition of contact angles
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1Physics of Fluids Group, Faculty of Science and Technology, Mesa+ Institute, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands 2School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK 3Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA 4Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes, UMR 7636 ESPCI-CNRS, Univ. Paris-Diderot, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75005, Paris, France 5Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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