Crumpling a thin sheet of material into a small volume requires energy for creating a network
of deformations such as vertices and ridges,. Scaling properties of a single elastic vertex,, or …

The assembly of nanoparticles into large, two-dimensional structures provides a route for the
exploration of collective phenomena among mesoscopic building blocks. We characterize …

Cell membrane is made up of a complex structure of lipids and proteins that diffuse laterally
giving rise to what we call membrane fluidity. During cellular development, such as …

We investigate the effects of quenched elastic disorder on the nature of the crumpling-to-flat
transition of D-dimensional polymerized membranes using a two-loop computation near the …

We explore the structural and dynamic properties of bulk materials composed of graphene
nanosheets using coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations. Remarkably, our results …

Complex morphologies in lipid membranes typically arise due to chemical heterogeneity,
but in the tilted gel phase, complex shapes can form spontaneously even in a membrane …

Zwitterionic long-chain lipids (eg, dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine, DMPC) spontaneously
form onion-like, thermodynamically stable structures in aqueous solutions (commonly known …

A wrinkled nanomembrane with embedded quantum well (QW), fabricated by the partial
release and bond back of epitaxial layers upon underetching, is investigated by spatially …

We investigate the conformational properties of self-avoiding two-dimensional (2D) ideal
polymer networks with tunable mesh sizes as a model of self-assembled structures formed …

We study the scaling properties of randomly folded aluminum sheets of different thicknesses
h and widths L. We found that the fractal dimension D= 2.30±0.01 and the force scaling …