Figure , Preparation of the domed disk-shaped object. To begin with, a steel ball is brought into contact with a small drop of liquid epoxy, which partially wets the steel ball (a). After the epoxy is cured, the assembly is encased inside cross-linkable PDMS (b). After the PDMS is fully crosslinked, it was removed from the steel-epoxy assembly. This negative image of the steel-epoxy assembly was then filled with hot melt epoxy (c). After cooling, the epoxy structure is removed from which several domed disks were cut out for the adhesion studies (d). Microscopic images of the front and plan views of the pseudo-foulant adhered to the PDMS substrate are shown on the right side of the Figure . the inset shows the time stamp images of the growth of delamination from the center to the periphery of the domed disk.