The English-language dictionary defines wrinkles as “small furrows, ridges, or creases on a
normally smooth surface, caused by crumpling, folding, or shrinking”. In this paper we review …

Surface instabilities in soft matter have been the subject of increasingly innovative research
aimed at better understanding the physics of their formation and their utility in patterning …

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 …

Emerging forms of soft, flexible, and stretchable electronics promise to revolutionize the
electronics industries of the future offering radically new products that combine multiple …

Mechanical buckling usually means catastrophic failure in structural mechanics systems.
However, controlled buckling of thin films on compliant substrates has been used to …

A compressed elastic film on a compliant substrate can form wrinkles. On an elastic
substrate, equilibrium and energetics set the critical condition and select the wrinkle …

Conspectus Patterned surfaces are fundamentally important to physics, chemistry, materials,
and biology science, endowing significant functions and thus bearing broad and fantastic …

Surface wrinkles are commonly observed in polymer films driven by mechanical instability
when the stress exceeds a critical value. Recently, wrinkling instability has been utilized as a …

The discovery of materials exhibiting shape memory effects (SMEs)—so-called shape
memory materials (SMMs)—opened an exciting field and made a significant breakthrough in …

A new template-free, porous, and wrinkled ZnO thin films were designed by sol-gel dip-
coating technique for enhancing the photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants in …