Mechanics of morphological instabilities and surface wrinkling in soft materials: a review

B Li, YP Cao, XQ Feng, H Gao - Soft Matter, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Morphological instabilities and surface wrinkling of soft materials such as gels and biological
tissues are of growing interest to a number of academic disciplines including soft …

Wrinkled interfaces: Taking advantage of surface instabilities to pattern polymer surfaces

J Rodriguez-Hernandez - Progress in Polymer Science, 2015 - Elsevier
The generation of nano-microstructured polymer film surfaces has been a challenge during
the last decades. Advances in the fabrication of structured polymer surfaces to obtain micro …

A three-dimensional phase diagram of growth-induced surface instabilities

Q Wang, X Zhao - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
A variety of fascinating morphological patterns arise on surfaces of growing, develo** or
aging tissues, organs and microorganism colonies. These patterns can be classified into …

Shape-programmed folding of stimuli-responsive polymer bilayers

G Stoychev, S Zakharchenko, S Turcaud… - ACS …, 2012 - ACS Publications
We investigated the folding of rectangular stimuli-responsive hydrogel-based polymer
bilayers with different aspect ratios and relative thicknesses placed on a substrate. It was …

From wrinkles to creases in elastomers: the instability and imperfection-sensitivity of wrinkling

Y Cao, JW Hutchinson - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The stability of the wrinkling mode experienced by a compressed half-space of neo-
Hookean material is investigated using analytical and numerical methods to study the post …

Growing matter: a review of growth in living systems

E Kuhl - Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical …, 2014 - Elsevier
Living systems can grow, develop, adapt, and evolve. These phenomena are non-intuitive to
traditional engineers and often difficult to understand. Yet, classical engineering tools can …

Phase diagrams of instabilities in compressed film-substrate systems

Q Wang, X Zhao - Journal of applied mechanics, 2014 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Subject to a compressive membrane stress, an elastic film bonded on a substrate can
become unstable, forming wrinkles, creases or delaminated buckles. Further increasing the …