Congratulations to Jiho on his contact measurements to provide some baselines of properties of PDMS to help with Professor Hutchens’ work on soft fracture using cavitation rheology! And if you are new to the word, just imagine inserting a needle into your jello and blowing a hole in it! This paper can help predict the shape and size of the hole that forms. Spoiler — it’s not a sphere.

See the paper here: rdcu.be/bIaJo