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All phases of matter, solid, liquid or gas, present some excess energy,compared to their bulk, at their interfaces with other materials. This excessof energy, known as the surface energy, is a fundamental property of matter andis involved in virtually all interface problems in science, from the shape ofbubbles, crystals and biological cells to the delicate motion of some insectson water or the fluttering of red blood cells. Because of their high cohesiveinternal energies, the surface energies of solids differ fundamentally fromthose of fluids and depend on the solid deformations. This effect, known as theShuttleworth effect, is well established for metals but is highly debated foramorphous materials such as glasses, elastomers or biological tissues withrecent experimental results yielding strictly opposite conclusions with regardsto its very existence. Using a combination of analytical results and numericalsimulations, we show in this paper that those seemingly opposite results can bereconciled due to the existence of an analog of the Peach-Koehler force actingon the elastocapillary ridge and conclude that: i) there is no largeShuttleworth effect in soft elastomers and ii) the Neumann construction doesnot hold in elastowetting.

Corners in soft solids behave as defects in crystals