One of the most unique physical features of cell adhesion to external surfaces is the active
generation of mechanical force at the cell-material interface. This includes pulling forces …

Liquid–fluid interfaces provide a platform both for structuring liquids into complex shapes
and assembling dimensionally confined, functional nanomaterials. Historically, attention in …

Thin sheets have long been known to experience an increase in stiffness when they are
bent, buckled, or assembled into smaller interlocking structures. We introduce a unique …

Thin sheets assembled into three dimensional folding origami can have various applications
from reconfigurable architectural structures to metamaterials with tunable properties …

The wrinkling of thin elastic sheets occurs over a range of length scales, from the fine scale
patterns in substrates on which cells crawl to the coarse wrinkles seen in clothes. Motivated …

Unlike flat sheets, crumpled paper balls have both high free volume and high compressive
strength, and can tightly pack without significantly reducing the area of accessible surface …

Subject to a compressive membrane force, a film bonded to a compliant substrate often
forms a pattern of wrinkles. This paper studies such wrinkles in a layered structure used in …

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 …

Advanced materials and processing techniques are based largely on the generation and
control of non-homogeneous microstructures, such as precipitates and grain boundaries. X …

Although negligible at macroscopic scales, capillary forces become dominant as the sub-
millimetric scales of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) are considered. We review …