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When a pure droplet evaporates inside an elastic medium, two instabilities are typically observed. As the droplet shrinks, the elastic medium needs to deform and elastic tension builds up. At a critical strain, accumulated tension at the gel-droplet interface is released by developing creases. The droplet keeps shrinking beyond this point, pulling the elastic network and therefore decreasing the pressure in the liquid phase. This drives the liquid phase into a metastable state, and leads to the second instability the nucleation of a v
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