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The idea of controlled cracking. Surface profiles from white light interferometry of soft islands on a hardened PDMS surface under various strain; (a) increasing strain (left to right) leads to controlled cracking at the tip of the upper island and crack tip propagation towards the bottom island until the crack is fully stabilized (right); and (b) a controlled crack with (c) the corresponding height profile.
