Ongoing Work I: Peeling

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At very high levels of tensile stress, peeling instability leads to a decohesion from the substrate.
- The ‘Band-Aid’ instability!
- Critical stress is a function of physico-chemical properties of fluid and surface.

Spiegelberg et al. JNNFM 1996

At very high levels of tensile stress, peeling instability leads to a decohesion from the substrate.