SES 2024 Call for Abstract Submission: Adhesion, Friction, and Fracture at Soft Interfaces: Theory, Simulation, and Experiment (Monday, April 1, 2024)

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit abstracts and attend the minisymposium titled "6.9 Adhesion, Friction, and Fracture at Soft Interfaces: Theory, Simulation, and Experiment" in the 2024 SES Annual Techinical Meeting, August 20-23, 2024, InterContinental Hangzhou, China. https://www.2024ses.com/

Abstract submissions are due Monday, April 1, 2024.

6.9 Adhesion, Friction, and Fracture at Soft Interfaces: Theory, Simulation, and Experiment

The overarching theme of this mini-symposium is to understand the mechanical behavior, transport, and adhesive failure at the interface between a soft material and another material that is soft, rigid, or fluid. These interfaces typically only take a small portion of an entire material system, but play critical roles in determining the bulk property and behaviors. The mini-symposium covers all aspects of soft interfaces including energetic and dissipative behaviors, low-dimensional coupled field mechanics, mass and thermal transport across the interface, and size-dependent behaviors of soft active solids at various length scales. The mini-symposium aims to bring researchers from diverse backgrounds and promote the exchange of new knowledge and development in computational, theoretical, and experimental methods. For an increased impact, the methods can range from molecular to macro scales or link both. Classical and new experimental techniques capturing the interface/surface effects and adhesive behaviors, and validating the theory and simulation of soft interfaces are encouraged. High-level applications leveraging soft interfaces are further welcome.

The topics include, but are not limited to:

● theoretical modeling

● computational methods

● experimental characterizations

● adhesion, friction, and contact mechanics

● size-effects in soft materials

● surface instabilities such as wrinkling, creasing, and other modes

● phase transformations

● 2D crystalline and biological membranes

● elastocapillary

●  stimuli-response of soft interfaces

● novel engineering/fabrication techniques, functional devices, and applications