Alteration of surface or interfacial tension of a sufficiently soft solid, for example a gel or an elastomer, leads to its deformation. This phenomenon is known as the elastocapillary effect, the manifestation of which is observed in many different contexts: blunting of a sharp corner of a gel block , smoothing of undulations on a solid surface , instability of a long, thin cylindrical hydrogel , stiffening of solid with liquid inclusions , phase separation at the contact of a solid particle and a soft substrate and so on. The extent of deformation is mediated by the elastocapillary length (1-2), E l E   , in which,  and E are interfacial tension and elastic modulus respectively. Putting representative numbers for a commonly used elastomer e.g., poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS),