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Downloaded from / on January 1, 2016 Deformation near a liquid contact line on an elastic substrate 1 2 Chung-Yuen Hui and Anand Jagota 1 Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA 2 Department of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering Program, Research Lehigh University, 111 Research Drive, Bethlehem, PA 18018, USA Cite this article: Hui C-Y, Jagota A. 2014 Deformation near a liquid contact line on an The equilibrium configuration of a liquid drop on elastic substrate. Proc. R. Soc. A 470: a solid is determined by local energy balance. For a very stiff substrate, energy balance is represented /10.1098/rspa.2014.0085 by Young’s equation. The equilibrium configuration near a line separating three fluids, in contrast, is Received: 1 February 2014 determined by a balance of forces—their surface Accepted: 8 April 2014 tensions—which is represented graphically by Neumann’s triangle. We argue that these two are